The SAGE Handbook of Performance StudiesD. Soyini Madison, Judith Hamera The SAGE Handbook of Performance Studies brings together, in a single volume, reviews of the major research in performance studies and identifies directions for further investigation. It is the only comprehensive collection on the theories, methods, politics, and practices of performance relating to life and culture. Edited by D. Soyini Madison and Judith Hamera, this Handbook serves scholars and students across the disciplines by delineating the scope of the field, the critical and interpretive methods used, and the theoretical and ethical presumptions that guide work in this exciting and growing area. |
Contents
Performance Trouble | 1 |
1 Stages | 9 |
2 Never Again | 21 |
3 Performance and Globalization | 33 |
4 Performance Performativity and Cultural Poiesis in Practices of Everyday Life | 46 |
Performing History | 65 |
5 Genealogies of Performance Studies | 73 |
6 Memory Remembering and Histories of Change | 87 |
16 Pedagogy on the Move | 296 |
17 Unlocking the Doors for Incarcerated Women Through Performance and Creative Writing | 309 |
18 The Politics and Ethics of Performance Pedagogy | 325 |
Performance and Ethnography Performing Ethnography Performance Ethnography | 339 |
19 Dwight Conquergoods Rethinking Ethnography | 347 |
20 Rethinking Ethnography | 351 |
21 Ethnography and the Politics of Adaptation | 366 |
22 She Attempted to Take Over the Choreography of the Sex Act | 385 |
7 Minstrelsy and Mental Metempsychosis | 106 |
8 What to Do When Nuclear War Breaks Out | 124 |
Performance of and Beyond Literature | 143 |
9 Shifting Contexts in Personal Narrative Performance | 151 |
10 The Constructed Self | 169 |
11 The Strange Case of the Body in thePerformance of Literature Classroom | 188 |
12 On the Bias | 205 |
13 Staging Paradox | 227 |
Performance and Pedagogy | 253 |
14 Fieldwork in the Performance Studies Classroom | 261 |
15 Ambulant Pedagogy | 278 |
23 Staging FieldworkPerforming Human Rights | 397 |
Performance and Politics | 419 |
24 The Problem Democracy Is Supposed to Solve | 427 |
25 Black Performance Studies | 446 |
26 Lethal Theatre | 464 |
27 Who Is This Ancestor? | 489 |
28 The Polemics and Potential of Theatre Studies and Performance
| 508 |
About the Editors | 547 |
About the Contributors | 549 |
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