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Worldmaking : race, performance, and the work of creativity / Dorinne Kondo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kondo, Dorinne K., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asian American theater--Social aspects.
- Asian American theater.
- Theater and society--United States.
- Theater and society.
- Racism and the arts--United States.
- Racism and the arts.
- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)--Social aspects--United States.
- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- American drama--Asian American authors--History and criticism.
- American drama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- In this bold, innovative work, Dorinne Kondo theorizes the racialized structures of inequality that pervade theater and the arts. Grounded in twenty years of fieldwork as dramaturg and playwright, Kondo mobilizes critical race studies, affect theory, psychoanalysis, and dramatic writing to trenchantly analyze theater's work of creativity as theory: acting, writing, dramaturgy. Race-making occurs backstage in the creative process and through economic forces, institutional hierarchies, hiring practices, ideologies of artistic transcendence, and aesthetic form. For audiences, the arts produce racial affect--structurally over-determined ways affect can enhance or diminish life. Upending genre through scholarly interpretation, vivid vignettes, and Kondo's original play, Worldmaking journeys from an initial romance with theater that is shattered by encounters with racism, toward what Kondo calls reparative creativity in the work of minoritarian artists Anna Deavere Smith, David Henry Hwang, and the author herself. Worldmaking performs the potential for the arts to remake worlds, from theater worlds to psychic worlds to worldmaking visions for social transformation.
- Contents:
- Theoretical scaffolding, formal architecture
- Racialized economies
- (En)acting theory
- The drama behind the drama
- Revising race
- Playwriting as reparative creativity
- Seamless, a full-length play.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Contains:
- Container of: Kondo, Dorinne K. Seamless.
- ISBN:
- 9781478002420
- 1478002425
- OCLC:
- 1097134482
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