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Parker-Starbuck, Jennifer. Ed(S): Orozco, Lourdes - Performing Animality - 9781349476466 - V9781349476466
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Performing Animality

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Description for Performing Animality Paperback. Editor(s): Orozco, Lourdes. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; AS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310.
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

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
Number of Pages
238
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349476466
SKU
V9781349476466
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About Parker-Starbuck, Jennifer. Ed(S): Orozco, Lourdes
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
'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

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