"This book offers a timely discussion about the interventions and tensions between two contested and contentious fields, performance and phenomenology, with international case studies that map an emerging 21st century terrain of critical and performance practice. Building on the foundational texts of both fields that established the performativity of perception and cognition, Performance and Phenomenology continues a tradition that consi ..."
"This book offers a timely discussion about the interventions and tensions between two contested and contentious fields, performance and phenomenology, with international case studies that map an emerging twenty-first century terrain of critical and performance practice. Building on the foundational texts of both fields that established the performativity of perception and cognition, Performance and Phenomenology continues a tradition th ..."
"The phenomenological idea of situated embodiment both as a site of oppression
and transformation is addressed in Shirley Tate's “Transracial Intimacy and 'Race
Performativity': Recognition and Destabilizing the Nation's Racial Contract.” Tate
considers the potential of performance to cut through usual patterns of doing and
perceiving while acknowledging the political limits of these interventions.
Focusing on the case of a Black Br ..."