1st Edition
Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater
List of Figures Prologue Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION Transformance: In Search of a Body CHAPTER ONE Island Bodies in the Nexus of Empires CHAPTER TWO Energized Bodies: Cultural Hybridity as a Method of Transformance CHAPTER THREE Rhythmic Bodies: Transformance as a Postmodern Project CHAPTER FOUR Ritualized Bodies: Transformance as an Act of Worship CHAPTER FIVE Joyous Bodies: Transformance and the State CHAPTER SIX (Re)productive Bodies: Transformance in Deterioration CONCLUSION Transformance as Repair Index
Biography
Peilin Liang is Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies at the National University of Singapore. She is the director of A Home on the Island, a transnational Practice as Research (PaR) project in applied theater. Her work has appeared in Theatre Topics, Theatre Research International, Contemporary Theatre Review, InterAsia Cultural Studies, Performance Research, and Research in Drama Education.
