Performance in America by David Romn
Argues for the centrality of theatre and performance in the American national imaginary-
Time Binds
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Animacies
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Wild Things
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Mobile Subjects
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Surrogate Humanity
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Movement and the Ordering of Freedom
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Global Divas
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Arresting Dress
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Queer in Translation
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Queer Korea
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Disaffected
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The Sense of Brown
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A View from the Bottom
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Pedagogies of Crossing
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Unruly Visions
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Chinese Surplus
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Queen for a Day
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Safe Space
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The Witch's Flight
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Fractal Repair
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Racial Castration
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Unruly Comparison
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Emergent Genders
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Interventions Into Modernist Cultures
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Freedom with Violence
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Metroimperial Intimacies
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Desiring China
“Coming together to lift a celebratory glass to their peculiarities, as if they have suddenly found themselves together again in Nick’s Pacific Street bar from Saroyan’s The Time of Your Life (1939), the carefully assembled guests of David Román’s Performance in America add up to an improbable but exhilarating ensembleAnyone who can make Elaine Stritch feel right at home at a party with the ghost of Sarah Siddons will show you the time of your life, and Román is that kind of host, entertaining the divas of stage, screen, dance, and cabaret while cordially welcoming his readers. rsvp.”—Joseph Roach, author of Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance
“In a work of immediate political relevance and lasting theoretical importance, David Román forcefully establishes live performance at the center of America’s cultural life, showing how its unique capacity to mobilize ‘provisional collectivities’ in the here and now allows it to express and inform crucial national debates. Román’s brilliant readings of various undervalued genres of popular performance are themselves a tour de force of critical performance, teaching us how to engage the vast ‘embodied archive’ in which American publics and counter-publics understand themselves.”—Una Chaudhuri, Professor of English and Drama, New York University
“Román makes a persuasive case for the centrality of performance in contemporary U.S. culture. . . . In its analyses, tone, and scope, this book succeeds in achieving what its subjects accomplish: a critical reassessment of performance in America.” -- Debora Paredez * Theatre Research International *
“In a work of immediate political relevance and lasting theoretical importance, David Román forcefully establishes live performance at the center of America’s cultural life, showing how its unique capacity to mobilize ‘provisional collectivities’ in the here and now allows it to express and inform crucial national debates. Román’s brilliant readings of various undervalued genres of popular performance are themselves a tour de force of critical performance, teaching us how to engage the vast ‘embodied archive’ in which American publics and counter-publics understand themselves.”—Una Chaudhuri, Professor of English and Drama, New York University
“Román makes a persuasive case for the centrality of performance in contemporary U.S. culture. . . . In its analyses, tone, and scope, this book succeeds in achieving what its subjects accomplish: a critical reassessment of performance in America.” -- Debora Paredez * Theatre Research International *
David RomÁn is Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Acts of Intervention: Performance, Gay Culture, and AIDS and a coeditor of O Solo Homo: The New Queer Performance.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780822336754 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822336758 |
| Title | Performance in America |
| Author | David Román |
| Series | Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited By Jack Halberstam And Lisa Lowe |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Year published | 2005-11-23 |
| Number of pages | 376 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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