... as canonical texts, methodologies of study, objects of analysis, expertise, sources of knowledge, and systems of transmission. This closing chapter brings together words from many of the leading figures in performance studies to speculate on how we can better understand the powerful weapon that is performance...

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... then analyzes selected scenes from Strange Fruit to argue that Johnson employs performance studies sensibilities to destabilize essentialist notions of black queer male identity. black queer art black queer studies performance studies ...

.... Brody then analyzes selected scenes from Strange Fruit to argue that Johnson employs performance studies sensibilities to destabilize essentialist notions of black queer male identity. black queer art black queer studies performance studies In this chapter, Bernadette Marie Calafell...

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... The introduction situates the book within the field of performance studies, describing how performative histories have a unique ability to alter how we make history and conjure memory. It theorizes key concepts such as the archive, race in a South African context, the body, and gesture...

... Chapter 3 moves from text-based testimony and performance to the public performances of the Prison Monologues program. Utilizing the lens of performance studies, this chapter analyzes the slippage between performativity and life writing, exploring the model of reform behind the Prison Monologues...

... recognizability as a human activity (performance), object (inscription), and sensibility (mode of listening) can work to elevate its conceptual status above scrutiny. This entry highlights how music has been naturalized in three principal ways: as science, as art, and as performance. In relation to sound studies...

... in the realm of religion. This chapter introduces the concepts of the body as center, conduit, and catalyst and also defines the three Kongo everyday cultural performances of interest (bimpampa, makinu, and zakama). The chapter discusses the methods used in the study, including participant observation...

... the significance of this study for research on embodied practices across the Atlantic in the New World. methods performance New World embodiment authority ...

... inconspicuousness. The chapter draws on the resources of performance studies to offer a critique of the pseudoscience informing behavior detection. Israeli security behavioral psychology affect public body suspicion ...

... Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, and the Affordable Care Act. Second, it outlines the methodology of interdisciplinary literary study and the engagement with disability studies and the health humanities that guide the project. In order to demonstrate the kind of cultural studies analysis...

..., Feb20 liberated multiple possibilities for the co-imbrication of sex, gender, culture, and politics. The chapter examines these inaugurations by studying embodied discursive, performative, and artistic spaces initiated or expanded by Feb20 as forms of aesthetic citizenship. At the peak of the Arab...

... Through the concept of “rayano consciousness,” the chapter theorizes the Haitian-Dominican border within the framework of border studies. Encompassing the multiplicity of borders—transnational, interethnic and multilinguistic—that characterize the Dominican experience on and beyond the island...

... to the bare life and biopolitics discourse exemplified by the work of Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault to reveal the pressing need to make the insights of ethnic studies and black feminism foundational to the study of modern humanity. indigeneity performance Hawaiʻi Cocoa Chandelier ...

... With the publication of her first novel in 1990, writer/performer Jessica Hagedorn emerged onto the national literary scene in the midst of U.S. culture wars. The era’s two critical currents of liberal multiculturalism and postcolonial studies impacted how scholars and readers figured Hagedorn’s...

... The introduction provides a performance-based analysis of airport security. The aesthetics of transparency is used to moralize biopolitical distinctions drawn between populations presumed capable of reflexive governance and those excluded from the project of risk management. In the post-9/11 era...