Race and performance after repetition /

Colbert, Soyica Diggs.

Race and performance after repetition / Soyica Diggs Colbert. - 1 online resource (345 pages)

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Tidying Up after Repetition / Soyica Diggs Colbert, Douglas A. Jones JR., and Shane Vogel -- Part I: Toggling Time: Metatheaters of Race -- 1. So Far Down You Can't See the Light: Afro-Fabulationin Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's An Octoroon / Tavia Nyong'o -- 2. The Performance and Politics of Concurrent Temporalities in George C. Wolfe's Shuffle Along / Catherine M. Young -- 3. A Sonic Treatise of Futurity: Universes' Party People / Patricia Herrera -- Part II: Choreo-Chronographies -- 4. Joe Louis's Utopic Glitch / Tina Post -- 5. Sorrow's Swing / Jasmine Johnson -- 6. Parabolic Moves: Time, Narrative, and Difference in New Circus / Katherine Zien -- 7. Choreographing Time Travel: Rethinking Ritual through Korean Diasporic Performance / Elizabeth W. Son -- Part III: Temporal (Im)mobilites: Dwelling Out of Time -- 8. Carceral Space-Times and The House That Herman Built / Nicholas Fesette -- 9. Performance Interventions: Natality and Carceral Feminism in Contemporary India / Jisha Menon -- 10. Witnessing Queer Flights: Josué Azor's Lougawou Images and Antihomosexual Unrest in Haiti / Mario Lamothe -- 11. The Body Is Never Given, nor Do We Actually See It / Joshua Chambers-Letson -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Examining theater, performance art, music, sports, dance, and photography, the contributors to Race and Performance after Repetition explore how theater and performance studies account for the complex relationship between race and time.

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