Performance, Politics and Activism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Lynette Hunter

      Pages 1-14

3. Expanding the Political with Performance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Performance and Language Diversity in a Globalizing World

      • Moradewun Adejunmobi

      Pages 17-31

   3. Zooming In and Out: Tactical Media Performance in Transnational Contexts

      • Marcela A. Fuentes

      Pages 32-55

   4. The Role of Theatre in the Breaking and Making of Two African Nations: Ethiopia and Eritrea, 1916–2011

      • Jane Plastow

      Pages 56-70

   5. For the Eyes of the Dear Father: Staging National Unity in the North Korean Arirang Festival

      • Suk-Young Kim

      Pages 71-86

   6. The Emaciated Spectator and the Witness of the Powerless

      • Alan Read

      Pages 87-104

4. Disturbing the Political with Performance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. ‘Asking, We Walk’

      • Susan Kelly

      Pages 107-120

   3. Colour Blind: Seeing Difference, Performing Sightlessness

      • Patrick Anderson

      Pages 121-131

   4. Constellation: Engaging with Radical Devised Dance Theatre: Keith Hennessy’s Sol Niger

      • Lynette Hunter

      Pages 132-153

   5. Glocalqueer Pink Activism

      • Eng-Beng Lim

      Pages 154-166

   6. The Palestinian State of Emergency and the Art Practice of Emily Jacir

      • Stephen Morton

      Pages 167-177

5. Critiquing the Political with Performance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179

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   2. ‘Raw Life’ and the Ruse of Empathy

      • Frank B. Wilderson III

      Pages 181-206

   3. Siting Geography: Octavio Solis and the Circulation of Performance

      • Jon D. Rossini

      Pages 207-219

   4. Peter Sellars’s Changing Conceptions of the Audience in Productions of Three Greek Plays

      • Peter Lichtenfels

      Pages 220-236

   5. Kleenex Citizens and the Performance of Undisposability

      • Shannon Jackson

      Pages 237-252

6. Back Matter

   Pages 253-274

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Considering both making political performance and making performance politically, this collection explores engagements of political resistance, public practice and performance media, on various scales of production within structures of neoliberal and liberal government and power.

• Africa
• African
• color
• concept
• dance
• festival
• Greek
• media
• nation
• performance
• play
• politics
• resistance
• structure
• theatre

“The essays in Performance, Politics and Activism offer myriad alternatives for encountering and analyzing radical performances that operate in resistance to inherited representational strategies and repressive political structures. Performance Studies scholars as well as theatre researchers will find many points of entry in this eclectic, expansive, and nuanced collection.” (Christine Woodworth, Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, Vol. 4 (2), November, 2016)

• University of California, Davis, USA

  Peter Lichtenfels

• Department of Theatre and Dance, University of California, San Diego, USA

  John Rouse

Moradewun Adejunmobi Patrick Anderson Marcela A. Fuentes (Marsha Gall) Lynette Hunter Shannon Jackson Susan Kelly Suk-Young Kim Peter Lichtenfels Stephen Morton Jane Plastow Jon D. Rossini John Rouse Frank B. Wilderson III

Policies and ethics