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Performing Animality: Animals in Performance Practices
Jennifer Parker-Starbuck
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Description for Performing Animality: Animals in Performance Practices
Hardback. This book is a historical and theoretical exploration of the presence of animals and animality - literal or symbolic - in theatre and performance practices from the eighteenth century to today. Editor(s): Parker-Starbuck, Jennifer; Orozco, Lourdes. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ASZX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
Performing Animality provides theoretical and creative interventions into the presence of the animal and ideas of animality in performance. Animals have always played a part in human performance practices. Maintaining a crucial role in many communities' cultural traditions, animal-human encounters have been key in the development of performance. Similarly, performance including both living animals and/or representations of animals provides the context for encounters in which issues of power, human subjectivity and otherness are explored. Crucially, however, the inclusion of animals in performance also offers an opportunity to investigate ethical and moral assumptions about human and non-human animals. This book offers ... Read more
Performing Animality provides theoretical and creative interventions into the presence of the animal and ideas of animality in performance. Animals have always played a part in human performance practices. Maintaining a crucial role in many communities' cultural traditions, animal-human encounters have been key in the development of performance. Similarly, performance including both living animals and/or representations of animals provides the context for encounters in which issues of power, human subjectivity and otherness are explored. Crucially, however, the inclusion of animals in performance also offers an opportunity to investigate ethical and moral assumptions about human and non-human animals. This book offers ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
424g
Number of Pages
238
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137373120
SKU
V9781137373120
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Jennifer Parker-Starbuck
Una Chaudhuri, New York University, USA Laura Cull, University of Surrey, UK Holly Hughes, University of Michigan, USA Kim Marra, University of Iowa, USA Garry Marvin, University of Roehampton, UK Monica Mattfeld, University of Kent, UK Lourdes Orozco, University of Leeds, UK Jennifer Parker-Starbuck, University of Roehampton, UK Carrie Rohman, Lafayette College, USA Peta Tait, La Trobe University, ... Read more
Reviews for Performing Animality: Animals in Performance Practices
'Performing Animality: Animals in Performance Practices is an important and timely must-have book that is among the first to foreground the animal as an increasingly urgent matter for Performance Studies. It is also the first to gather into one volume the particular perspectives of theatre and performance scholars as innovative contributions to the interdisciplinary field of Animal Studies. The essays, ... Read more