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Title Race and performance after repetition / Soyica Diggs Colbert, Douglas A. Jones, and Shane Vogel, editors
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 333 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: Tidying up after repetition / Soyica Colbert, Douglas Jones, and Shane Vogel -- So far down you can't see the light : Afrofabulation in Branden Jacob-Jenkins's An octoroon / Tavia Nyong'o -- The performance and politics of concurrent temporalities in George C. Wolfe's Shuffle along / Catherine M. Young -- A sonic treatise of futurity : Universes' Party people / Patricia Herrera -- Joe Louis's utopic glitch / Tina Post -- Sorrow's swing / Jasmine Johnson -- Parabolic moves : time, narrative, and difference in New Circus / Katherine Zien -- Choreographing time travel : rethinking ritual through Korean diasporic performance / Elizabeth W. Son -- Carceral space-times and The house that Herman built / Nicholas Fesette -- Performance interventions : natality and carceral feminism in contemporary India / Jisha Menon -- Witnessing queer flights : Josué Azor's Lougawou images and anti-homosexual unrest in Haiti / Mario LaMothe -- The body is never given, nor do we actually see it / Joshua Chambers-Letson
Summary "RACE AND PERFORMANCE AFTER REPETITION considers the various and complex temporalities of both performance and racial aesthetics. Editors Soyica Colbert, Douglas Jones, and Shane Vogel note that performance studies has long relied on a dominant concept of repetition. Taking inspiration from José Esteban Muñoz's work, the contributors to the collection argue that minoritarian life schedules and cultural productions alike actually exist in multiple temporalities. They take up the work of non-white artists and communities to center temporal tropes that relate to, but diverge from, repetition. Theorizing raced time through time signatures, this collection proposes a spectrum of coexisting racial temporalities. The contributions are divided into three parts, the first of which focuses on the temporality of race, history, and form in theater. For example, Patricia Herrera explores the loop in UNIVERSES' production Party People (2016), which samples speeches by the Black Panthers and Young Lords, as a sonic treatise of futurity. The chapters in Part II consider how gesture, dance, and movement can recalibrate the temporal narratives of racial subjection. For example, Tina Post considers narrative tropes of animal and mechanical movement in reporters' stories about boxer Joe Louis. Katherine Zien examines Cuisine et Confessions (2014)- a "cultural circus" in which performers cook onstage, talk about their intimate lives, and perform high-risk circus feats-to show that arcs of time and space allow minoritarian identities to emerge in performance on their own time. The chapters in the Part III each take up what music misleadingly names the rest-an interval or pause of silence. The authors in this section consider the agency, critique, and hope that percolate in such stasis, such as Jisha Menon's focus in Chapter 10 on feminist natality as an alternative to punitive measures of liberal legality in Indian sexual violence cases"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Performing arts -- Social aspects -- United States
Time -- Social aspects -- United States
Performing arts -- Political aspects -- United States
Racism and the arts -- United States
Racism in popular culture -- United States
Arts and society -- United States
Theater and society -- United States
Politics and culture -- United States
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
Arts and society
Performing arts -- Political aspects
Performing arts -- Social aspects
Politics and culture
Racism and the arts
Racism in popular culture
Theater and society
Time -- Social aspects
Performing arts -- Social aspects -- United States.
Time -- Social aspects -- United States.
Performing arts -- Political aspects -- United States.
Racism and the arts -- United States.
Racism in popular culture -- United States.
Arts and society -- United States.
Theater and society -- United States.
Politics and culture -- United States.
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Colbert, Soyica Diggs, 1979- editor.
Jones, Douglas A., editor
Vogel, Shane, editor
LC no. 2019055648
ISBN 9781478009313
1478009314