Animal acts : : performing species today / / edited by Una Chaudhuri and Holly Hughes.
" Everyone has an animal story--the pet they loved or hated, the wild animal that captured their childhood imagination, the nasty dog at the end of the street, the deer your uncle shot or your neighbor hit while driving. Telling stories about animals is part of how we tell the story of being hu...
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| Superior document: | Critical performances |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ann Arbor : : University of Michigan Press,, [2014] |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical performances
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (255 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Animal Acts for Changing Times, 2.0: A Field Guide to Interspecies Performance Introduction by Una Chaudhuri""; ""The Dog and Pony Show (bring your own pony) by Holly Hughes""; ""Commentary by Donna Haraway: Agility Is Performance Art""; ""Stay! by Vicky Ryder, Lisa Asagi, and Stacy Makishi""; ""Commentary by Marla Carlson: What Happened to the Black Dog?""; ""Cat Lady by Joseph Keckler""; ""Commentary by Erika Rundle: Theatre of the Cat Lady Who Is Not""
- ""With What Ass Does the Cockroach Sit? / ¿Con Qué Culo Se Sientala Cucaracha? by Carmelita Tropicana (aka Alina Troyano)""""Commentary by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes: Martina, Catalina, Elián, and the Old Man: Queer Tales of a Transnational Cuban Cockroach""; ""No Bees for Bridgeport: A Fable from the Age of Daleyby Kestutis Nakas""; ""Commentary by Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson: A New Fable of the Bees""; ""Horseback Views: A Queer Hippological Performance by Kim Marra ""; ""Commentary by Jane C. Desmond: Kinesthetic Intimacies""; ""MONKEY by Deke Weaver""
- ""Commentary by Cary Wolfe: Apes like Us""""Excerpts from ELEPHANT by Deke Weaver ""; ""Commentary by Nigel Rothfels: A Hero's Death""; ""Excerpt from Everything I've Got by Jess Dobkin ""; ""Commentary by Jill Dolan: The Great Refusal and the Greater Hope""; ""Excerpts from As the Globe Warms: An American Soap Opera in Twelve Acts by Heather Woodbury ""; ""Commentary by Ann Pellegrini: Zooglossia: The Unknown Tongues of Heather Woodbury""; ""The Others by Rachel Rosenthal""; ""Contributors""