Theaters of Citizenship : : Aesthetics and Politics of Avant-Gardist Performance in Egypt / / Sonali Pahwa.
Theaters of Citizenship investigates the Egyptian movement for free theater, arguing that it evolved from an avant-gardist movement to an undercommons of revolutionary cultural practice. Using historiography, ethnography, and performance analysis, the book tells a story of this avant-garde from 2004...
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| Superior document: | Performance Works |
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| Place / Publishing House: | [s.l.] : : Northwestern University Press,, 2020. |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Performance Works
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (187 p.) |
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| Summary: | Theaters of Citizenship investigates the Egyptian movement for free theater, arguing that it evolved from an avant-gardist movement to an undercommons of revolutionary cultural practice. Using historiography, ethnography, and performance analysis, the book tells a story of this avant-garde from 2004-2014, analyzing its staging of rights claims, generational identity politics, and post-revolution citizenship. Using Moten and Harney's theory of the undercommons, a space-time for politicized cultural practice, the book extends avant-gardist theater theory to consider the revolutionary potential of performance within and outside theater spaces. Pahwa considers the performer's bodily repertoire as a medium of cultural and political citizenship, drawing on Diana Taylor's concept of repertoire, and expanding it to account for how performance mediates futurist culture and revolutionary practice. |
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| ISBN: | 0810141752 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Sonali Pahwa. |