Violence Performed: Local Roots and Global Routes of Conflict (Studies in International Performance) [Hardcover]

Patrick Anderson (Editor), Jisha Menon (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 6, 2009 | Series: Studies in International Performance

This collection of essays explores the co-implication of violence and performance in a range of geopolitical locations. It addresses the problem of local/global violence through the optic of performance studies, examining the constitutive role of violence, and the more global concerns about how violence is performed in the modern world.

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'...vibrant and vital collection...' - Theatre Research International 'Violence Performed is an important contribution to studies of violence in political contexts worldwide' - Lynette Hunter, Professor of the History of Rhetoric and Performance, UC Davis, USA 'Violence Performed is more than a collection of essays: it is a call to critical arms for all scholars in theatre and performance studies engaged with the challenges of bearing witness to global violence, and to the violence of the "global" as a constitutive discourse of late modernity. Anderson and Menon ask us to explore not only the places and performances of cultural and political trauma, but also the larger ethical questions that attend our work on trauma "elsewhere". What are the politics of performing violence? Of writing about violence performed? These are the urgent questions at the heart of this valuable book.'- Kim Solga, Associate Professor of English, University of Western Ontario, Canada 'Few works balance the theoretical charge of their arguments with such powerful contempoary examples. Given that the emphasis is on the performative aspects of violence, the editors do a terrifc work of examining not merely the staged (which assumes social and political actors) but also the spectacular (that which assumes rapid dissemination and disruption of the social) dimensions of public violence.' - Aishwary Kumar, Assistant Professor of Modern South Asian History, Stanford University, USA

About the Author

PATRICK ANDERSON is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego, USA, where he also serves as affliated faculty in the Departments of Critical Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies. He has also taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University.   JISHA MENON will soon be joining the Department of Drama at Stanford University, California, USA, as Assistant Professor. She has previously taught in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 408 pages
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (January 6, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 023053726X
• ISBN-13: 978-0230537262
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Edited Collection- Illustrating theory & practice, September 20, 2010

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This review is from: Violence Performed: Local Roots and Global Routes of Conflict (Studies in International Performance) (Hardcover)

If you align with the performance studies paradigm - this collection puts on display performance theory through various authors' perspectives & experiences with violent events, violent performances, and violence performed.