Race and Performance After Repetition

Soyica Diggs Colbert, Douglas A. Jones Jr., Shane Vogel (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

344 Seiten

2020
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0780-7 (ISBN)

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The contributors to Race and Performance after Repetition explore how theater and performance studies account for the complex relationship between race and time. Pointing out that repetition has been the primary point of reference for understanding both the complex temporality of theater and the historical persistence of race, they identify and pursue critical alternatives to the conceptualization, organization, measurement, and politics of race in performance. The contributors examine theater, performance art, music, sports, dance, photography, and other forms of performance in topics that range from the movement of boxer Joe Louis to George C. Wolfe's 2016 reimagining of the 1921 all-black musical comedy Shuffle Along to the relationship between dance, mourning, and black adolescence in Flying Lotus's music video “Never Catch Me.” Proposing a spectrum of coexisting racial temporalities that are not tethered to repetition, this collection reconsiders central theories in performance studies in order to find new understandings of race.

Contributors. Joshua Chambers-Letson, Soyica Diggs Colbert, Nicholas Fesette, Patricia Herrera, Jasmine Elizabeth Johnson, Douglas A. Jones Jr., Mario LaMothe, Daphne P. Lei, Jisha Menon, Tavia Nyong’o, Tina Post, Elizabeth W. Son, Shane Vogel, Catherine M. Young, Katherine Zien

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	11.09.2020
Zusatzinfo	34 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	703 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4780-0780-X / 147800780X
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0780-7 / 9781478007807
Zustand	Neuware