Not the Other Avant-Garde: The Transnational Foundations of Avant-Garde Performance (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0472069314 ISBN 13: 9780472069316

Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 2006

Synopsis

The essays in this collection offer a radical reappraisal of the avant-garde by placing it within a much broader global context. The book questions the very assumptions that underlie the generally accepted chronology and theory of the avant-garde, and offer a bold new performance-based theory that moves beyond Eurocentric presup-positions. In ten essays especially commissioned for this volume, leading scholars and critics including Marvin Carlson, Supito Chatterjee, John Conteh-Morgan, Harry J. Elam, Jr., Joachim Fiebach, David G. Goodman, Jean Graham-Jones, Hanna Higgins, and Adam Versenyi discuss avant-garde performances in Africa, the Middle East, Mexico, Argentina, India, and Japan.

About this title

About the Author

James Harding is Associate Professor of English at the University of Mary Washington. John Rouse is Associate Professor of Theater at the University of California-San Diego.

Review

"Joins the growing field of critical and transnational theories on the arts... its grounding in live performance and its foregrounding of the performative human body presents a new theoretical paradigm that is pathbreaking." - Haiping Yan, University of California, Los Angeles"

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0472069314
• ISBN 13: 9780472069316
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Harding James M., Rouse John