Race and Performance after Repetition
1st Edition
Published on 10. August 2020
344 pages
978-1-4780-0931-3 (ISBN)
Description
Examining theater, performance art, music, sports, dance, and photography, the contributors to Race and Performance after Repetition explore how theater and performance studies account for the complex relationship between race and time.
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Persons
Soyica Diggs Colbert is Idol Family Professor of the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgetown University and author of Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics.
Douglas A. Jones Jr. is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University and author of The Captive Stage: Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North.
Shane Vogel is Ruth N. Halls Professor of English at Indiana University and author of Stolen Time: Black Fad Performance and the Calypso Craze.
Douglas A. Jones Jr. is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University and author of The Captive Stage: Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North.
Shane Vogel is Ruth N. Halls Professor of English at Indiana University and author of Stolen Time: Black Fad Performance and the Calypso Craze.
Content
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Tidying Up after Repetition / Soyica Diggs Colbert, Douglas A. Jones Jr., and Shane Vogel 1
Part I. Toggling Time: Metatheaters of Race
1. So Far Down You Can't See the Light: Afro-Fabulation in Branden Jacob-Jenkins's An Octoroon / Tavia Nyong'o 29
2. The Performance and Politics of Concurrent Temporalities in George C. Wolfe's Shuffle Along / Catherine M. Young 46
3. A Sonic Treatise of Futurity: Universes' Party People / Patricia Herrera 71
Part II. Choreo-Chronographies
4. Joe Louis's Utopic Glitch / Tina Post 103
5. Sorrow's Swing / Jasmine Johnson 127
6. Parabolic Moves: Time, Narrative, and Difference in New Circus / Katherine Zien 142
7. Choreographing Time Travel: Rethinking Ritual through Korean Diasporic Performance / Elizabeth W. Son 173
Part III. Temporal (Im)mobilities: Dwelling Out of Time
8. Carceral Space-Times and The House That Herman Built / Nicholas Fesette 199
9. Performance Interventions: Natality and Carceral Feminism in Contemporary India / Jisha Menon 220
10. Whitnessing Queer Flights: Josué Azor's Lougawou Images and Antihomosexual Unrest in Haiti / Mario Lamothe 242
11. The Body Is Never Given, nor Do We Actually See It / Joshua Chambers-Letson 270
Bibliography 293
Contributors 317
Index 321
Introduction: Tidying Up after Repetition / Soyica Diggs Colbert, Douglas A. Jones Jr., and Shane Vogel 1
Part I. Toggling Time: Metatheaters of Race
1. So Far Down You Can't See the Light: Afro-Fabulation in Branden Jacob-Jenkins's An Octoroon / Tavia Nyong'o 29
2. The Performance and Politics of Concurrent Temporalities in George C. Wolfe's Shuffle Along / Catherine M. Young 46
3. A Sonic Treatise of Futurity: Universes' Party People / Patricia Herrera 71
Part II. Choreo-Chronographies
4. Joe Louis's Utopic Glitch / Tina Post 103
5. Sorrow's Swing / Jasmine Johnson 127
6. Parabolic Moves: Time, Narrative, and Difference in New Circus / Katherine Zien 142
7. Choreographing Time Travel: Rethinking Ritual through Korean Diasporic Performance / Elizabeth W. Son 173
Part III. Temporal (Im)mobilities: Dwelling Out of Time
8. Carceral Space-Times and The House That Herman Built / Nicholas Fesette 199
9. Performance Interventions: Natality and Carceral Feminism in Contemporary India / Jisha Menon 220
10. Whitnessing Queer Flights: Josué Azor's Lougawou Images and Antihomosexual Unrest in Haiti / Mario Lamothe 242
11. The Body Is Never Given, nor Do We Actually See It / Joshua Chambers-Letson 270
Bibliography 293
Contributors 317
Index 321
