"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.
- ISBN10 0822359545
- ISBN13 9780822359548
- Publish Date 18 March 2016
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Duke University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English