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Overview
"Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of its uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance; the performance of everyday life; and the gendered, sexed, and racialized performance of bodies. This book performs its argument. Images and texts interact to show how performance is at once a creative act, a means to comprehend power, a method of transmitting memory and identity, and a way of understanding the world.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780822359975
- ISBN-10: 0822359979
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publish Date: March 2016
- Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
- Page Count: 240
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