Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity - Couverture souple

Kondo, Dorinne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1478000945 ISBN 13 : 9781478000945

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2018

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Dorinne Kondo is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and Anthropology at the University of Southern California and author of About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater and Crafting Selves: Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1478000945
• ISBN 13: 9781478000945
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 376
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• Personne responsable: non disponible