1st Edition
Performance, Art, and Politics in the African Diaspora Necropolitics and the Black Body
By Myron M. Beasley
Copyright 2023
120 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
120 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book examines necropolitics and performance art, with a particular focus on the black body and the African diaspora.
In this book, Myron M. Beasley situates artists as cultural workers and theorists who illuminate the political linkages between their own and others’ specific locales. The focus is an interrogation of the political systems that dictate and determine the value of lives (and... Read more
1. Performance, Death, Politics 2. Haiti Is Open for Dreaming/Haiti Is Open for Business: Curating Périféeriques against Precarity 3. 9 of 219/A Carnival of Caskets 4. Public Mourning/Performance as Life 5. Geographies of Death Wearing White Shoes 6. On Rituals of Death 7. Harlem/Waste, Death, and Newly Assigned Value 8. The Anti-Museum
Biography
Myron M. Beasley is Associate Professor of American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Bates College.
