
Monsters in Performance
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These fascinating essays from leading and emerging scholars explore representation in performance, specifically concerning themselves with attempts at social disqualification of "undesirables." Throughout, the writers employ the concept of "monstrosity" to describe the cultural processes by which certain identities or bodies are configured to be threateningly deviant. The editors take a range of previously isolated critical inquiries - including bioethics, critical race studies, queer studies, and televisual studies - and merge them to create an accessible and dynamic platform which unifies these ranges of representations.
The global scope and interdisciplinary nature of Monsters in Performance renders it an essential book for Theatre and Performance students of all levels as well as scholars; it will also be an enlightening text for those interested in monstrosity and Cultural Studies more broadly.
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Analola Santana is Associate Professor in the Department of Theater at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Teatro y Cultura de Masas: Encuentros y Debates (Mexico: Editorial Escenologia, 2010) and Freak Performances: Dissidence in Latin American Theatre (University of Michigan Press, 2018), which considers the significance of theatrical practices that use the "freak" as a medium to explore the continuing effects of colonialism on Latin American identity. She is also the co-editor of Theatre and Cartographies of Power: Repositioning the Latina/o Americas (Southern Illinois University Press, 2018) and Fifty Key Figures in Latinx and Latin American Theatre (Routledge, 2022). She has published articles in several journals, including GESTOS, Latin American Theatre Review, Letras Femeninas, Paso de gato, Chasqui, Theatre Topics, Theatre Journal and Cuadernos de literatura. She works as a professional dramaturg and is a company member of Mexico's famed Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes.
Content
Michael M. Chemers and Analola Santana
Mythic Deviance
1. Bali's Rangda and Barong in Cosmic Balancing
Kathy Foley
2. Exterminating the Phantom: Nativist Constructions of Contagion and Monsters in Nineteenth-Century New York City
Mia Levenson
3. Married to the Monster: Gender and Moral Ambiguity on the Gothic Stage
Aoise Stratford
4. The Xtaabay as Monstrous Woman: Gender in Maya Cultural Production in the Yucatan Peninsula
Sarah Campbell
Forbidden Eroticism
5. Monstrous Arousals: La Rose, Un Faune, La Faune
Penny Farfan
6. Girl/Not Girl: The Hemispheric Monsters of Alexis Scheer's Our Dear Dead Druglord
Lisa Jackson-Schebetta
7. Defending the Patriarchy: The Monstrous (Queer) Other and the Anti-Carnivalesque
Catherine (Katya) Vrtis
8. Monsters of Africa and the Loss of Identity
Anita Gonzalez
The Monstrous Body
9. A Genealogy of the Fu Manchu Moustache
Esther Kim Lee
10. Uncanny Affect, Performing Prosthetics: Disability, Monstrosity, and the Puppet
Laura Purcell-Gates
11. Monstrosity in a Pandemic: Hypercapacity, Debility, and Death in Repo! The Genetic Opera
Samuel Yates
12. On the Afterlife of Teratological Specimens
Margaret Werry
Strange Families
13. "She Ain't Gonna Break": Theorizing the Life, Bare Life, and Living Dead Girls in The Devil's Rejects.
K. Scarlett Harrington and Bernadette Marie Calafell
14. Nuclear Normativity, Monstrous Masculinity, and Matter in Burning Vision.
Liz Fairchild
15. Undocumented Zombies: US-Mexican Immigration, The Walking Dead, and the Effort/Shape of Monsters
Jeff Kaplan
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