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Theaters of Citizenship : Aesthetics and Politics of Avant-Gardist Performance in Egypt / Sonali Pahwa.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pahwa, Sonali, 1976- author.
- Series:
- Performance works
- Performance Works
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Performing arts.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (187 pages).
- Other Title:
- Knowledge Unlatched.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Northwestern University Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- 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.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Theaters of Citizenship: Youth, Performance, and Identity in the Late Mubarak Era p. 3
- Chapter 2 After the Festival: The Intertwined Rise of Cultural and Political Avant-Gardes p. 19
- Chapter 3 Live from Cairo: Youth in the Time of New Media p. 47
- Chapter 4 Making Women Matter in Avant-Garde Theater p. 73
- Chapter 5 Instrumentalizing Performance in Self-Help Citizenship p. 95
- Chapter 6 Remembering Utopia: Social Theater and Arts Festivals after 2011 p. 117.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- KU Select 2019: HSS Frontlist Books
- BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 3724
- ISBN:
- 9780810141759
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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