Performance Anxieties
Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race
1st Edition
Published on 4. February 2014
198 pages
978-1-135-20763-2 (ISBN)
Description
Performance Anxieties looks at the on-going debates over the value of psychoanalysis for feminist theory and politics--specifically concerning the social and psychical meanings of racialization. Beginning with an historicized return to Freud and the meaning of Jewishness in Freud's day, Ann Pellegrini indicates how "race" and racialization are not incidental features of psychoanalysis or of modern subjectivity, but are among the generative conditions of both.
PerformanceAnxieties stages a series of playful encounters between elite and popular performance texts--Freud meets Sarah Bernhardt meets Sandra Bernhard; Joan Riviere's masquerading women are refigured in relation to the hard female bodies in the film Pumping Iron II: The Women; and the Terminator and Alien films. In re-reading psychoanalysis alongside other performance texts, Pellegrini unsettles relations between popular and elite, performance and performative.
PerformanceAnxieties stages a series of playful encounters between elite and popular performance texts--Freud meets Sarah Bernhardt meets Sandra Bernhard; Joan Riviere's masquerading women are refigured in relation to the hard female bodies in the film Pumping Iron II: The Women; and the Terminator and Alien films. In re-reading psychoanalysis alongside other performance texts, Pellegrini unsettles relations between popular and elite, performance and performative.
Reviews / Votes
"Performance Anxieties offers deft readings of key texts in the psychoanalytic literature in ways that are both clarifying and compelling, while also pulling the texts consistently toward the social and historical by applying their insights to representation." -- SignsMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
1,56 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-135-20763-2 (9781135207632)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
approx. 04/1997
Routledge
€94.40
Not yet published
Book
11/1996
1st Edition
Routledge
€60.90
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Person
Ann Pellegrini teaches in the Department of Women's Studies at Barnard College.
Content
Introduction The Seen Of Difference; Part 1 Jewishness; Chapter 1 Jewishness As Gender; Chapter 2 Entr' Acte; Chapter 3 You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real); Part 2 Blackness; Chapter 4 Citing Identity, Sighting Identification; Chapter 5 Through The Looking Glass; Chapter 6 Between Men; Part 3 Womanliness; Chapter 7 Femmes Futiles; Chapter 8 The Included Middle; Chapter 9 Oedipus Reps;
