Overview
- Provides an accessible and fascinating insight into global attitudes towards feminist expression in the arts
- Takes a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary approach to a key contemporary social issue
- Offers a working tool for understanding the role of political attitudes in the shaping of theatrical and artistic output globally
Part of the book series: Contemporary Performance InterActions (CPI)
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Keywords
- feminist activism
- feminist performance
- affect theory
- performance activism
- political performance
- agitprop theatre
- political protest
- feminist protest
- street protest
- post-feminism
- site specific theatre
- female repression
- female empowerment
- cultural hegemony
- neoliberal ideology
- heteronormativity
- neoliberal individualism
- performance theory
Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Affect, Performance, and the Neoliberal State
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Violence and Performance Activism
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Global Spectacles
Reviews
“This volume gathers powerful scholarship by a global roster of writers, also including Antje Budde, Sue-Ellen Case, Charlotte Canning, Sandra D’Urso, Sarah French, Rebecca Jennison, Aoife Monks, and Urmimala Sarkar Munsi. It details and analyses an extraordinary array of performance and art practices. It tells a resounding horror story about the global reach of neoliberalism, the disparity it brings, and the precarity it multiplies, especially for women. … it delivers the powerful, inspiring affect of feminist resilience and resistance.” (Jen Harvie,Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, Vol. 8 (2), 2020)
“This collection is a major achievement and shining testimony to the longevity and value of an international research group of feminist scholars who over time have developed a penetrating critique of our (neoliberal) times, the virtues and liabilities of affect, and the ways they manifest in performances across the world.” (Janelle Reinelt, Emeritus Professor of Theatre and Performance, University of Warwick, UK)
“In a spectrum of sharply inflected positions on the intersections of neoliberalism, affect and feminism, this assemblage of essays located in diverse geographical locations calls attention to the ways in which feminist performance continues to rage in multiple registers against the collusions of the state, the market, heteronormativity and racism.” (Rustom Bharucha, Professor in the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India)
“The four keywords that organize this important and timely collection evoke the most compelling intellectual and political issues of our time. The global reach of sites considered and the range of state power expertly examined illustrates each essay’s significance and impact. An excellent, lively, engaged, and inspiring read.” (Jill Dolan, Annan Professor in English and Professor of Theatre, Princeton University, USA)
“This timely anthology examines how contemporary performance and intersectional feminism display complex affective responses to gendered life in neoliberal times. Arguing there is no resistance without affect, the book is also significant for its cross-cultural analysis and diverse case studies, offering insightful essays by leading scholars and new critical perspectives.” (Peter Eckersall, Professor of Theatre, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Elin Diamond is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University, USA.
Denise Varney is Professor of Theatre Studies and co-director of the Australian Centre in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Candice Amich is Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Performance, Feminism and Affect in Neoliberal Times
Editors: Elin Diamond, Denise Varney, Candice Amich
Series Title: Contemporary Performance InterActions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59810-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59809-7Published: 08 May 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95582-4Published: 20 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59810-3Published: 29 April 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-5870
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5889
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 315
Number of Illustrations: 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Gender Studies, Performing Arts, Contemporary Theatre, Feminism, Cultural Studies