Viewers in distress : race, gender, religion, and avant-garde performance at the turn of the twenty-first century

Viewers in distress : race, gender, religion, and avant-garde performance at the turn of the twenty-first century / Stefka G. Mihaylova.

Conventional notions of avant-garde art suggest innovative artists rebelling against artistic convention and social propriety, shocking unwilling audiences into new ways of seeing and living. Viewers in Distress tells a different story. Beginning in the tumultuous 1990s, after the fall of the Berlin...

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Main Author: Mihaylova, Stefka G. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2023.
Subjects:
2000-2099
Experimental theater > History > 21st century.
Race in the theater > History > 21st century.
Gender identity in the theater > History > 21st century.
Theater > Religious aspects > History > 21st century.
Theater > Political aspects > History > 21st century.
Experimental theater
Gender identity in the theater
Race in the theater
Theater > Political aspects
Theater > Religious aspects
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction: "Can We All Along?" Get
  • Chapter 1: The Radical Formalism of Suzan-Lori Parks and Sarah Kane
  • Chapter 2: A Spectator Prepares: Forced Entertainment's Theater of Critical Feeling
  • Chapter 3: The Behzti Riot as a Contemporary Avant-Garde
  • Chapter 4: Feeling Bad about Being White: Young Jean Lee's Theater and the Progressive Avant-Garde
  • Coda: The Liberal Individual's Postmodern Return
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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