200 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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This is a book about the exhilaration and the catastrophe of embodiment. Analyzing different instances of injured bodies, Peggy Phelan considers what sustained attention to the affective force of trauma might yield for critical theory. Advocating what she calls "performative writing", she creates an extraordinary fusion of critical and creative thinking which erodes the distinction between art and... Read more
1. Introduction: This Book's Body 2. Whole Wounds: Bodies at the Vanishing Point 3. Immobile Legs, Stalled Words: Psychoanalysis and Moving Deaths 4. Uncovered Rectums: Disinterring the Rose Theatre 5. Bloody Nose, Loose Noose: Hearing Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas 6. Shattered Skulls: Rodney King and Holbein's The Ambassadors 7. Failed Live(r)s: Whatever Happened to Her Public Grief? In Memory of Rena Grant (1959-92) 8. Infected Eyes: Dying Man with a Movie Camera: Silverlake Life: The View From Here
Biography
Peggy Phelan is Chair of the Department of Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
'As with Phelan's Unmarked, this book has much to recommend it to postgraduate students in any of the arts or social sciences.' - New Theatre Quarterly
