Theaters of Citizenship : Aesthetics and Politics of Avant-Gardist Performance in Egypt /
Theaters of Citizenship investigates the Egyptian movement for free theater, arguing that it evolved from an avant-gardist movement to an undercommons of revolutionary cultural practice. Using historiography, ethnography, and performance analysis, the book tells a story of this avant-garde from 2004...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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[s.l.] :
Northwestern University Press,
2020.
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Series: | Performance works.
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Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Summary: | Theaters of Citizenship investigates the Egyptian movement for free theater, arguing that it evolved from an avant-gardist movement to an undercommons of revolutionary cultural practice. Using historiography, ethnography, and performance analysis, the book tells a story of this avant-garde from 2004-2014, analyzing its staging of rights claims, generational identity politics, and post-revolution citizenship. Using Moten and Harney's theory of the undercommons, a space-time for politicized cultural practice, the book extends avant-gardist theater theory to consider the revolutionary potential of performance within and outside theater spaces. Pahwa considers the performer's bodily repertoire as a medium of cultural and political citizenship, drawing on Diana Taylor's concept of repertoire, and expanding it to account for how performance mediates futurist culture and revolutionary practice. |
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Item Description: | OAPEN Library KU Select 2019: HSS Frontlist Books |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (187 p.). |
ISBN: | 0810141752 9780810141759 |