The stage lives of animals : zooësis and performance / Una Chaudhuri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chaudhuri, Una, 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals in the performing arts.

Human-animal relationships in the performing arts.

Animal welfare.

Physical Description:

xviii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2017.

Contents:

Introduction

(De)facing the animals: zooësis and performance

Animal rites: performing beyond the human

Animal geographies: zooësis and the space of modern drama

"Awk!": extremity, animality, and the aesthetic of awkwardness in Tennessee Williams's The Gnädiges Fräulein

Zoo stories: boundary work in theater history

Animalizing interlude: zoöpolis. Becoming rhinoceros: therio-theatricality as problem and promise in western drama

Bug bytes: insects, information, and interspecies theatricality

The silence of the polar bears: performing (climate) change in the theater of species

Queering the green man, reframing the garden: Marina Zurkow's Mesocosm (Northumberland UK) and the theater of species

War horses and dead tigers: embattled animals in a theater of species

Interspecies diplomacy in anthropocenic waters: performing an ocean oriented ontology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138818453

1138818453

9781138818477

113881847X

OCLC:

881029578