Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts
Author : Donald Barthelme
Publisher :
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 25,10 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Experimental fiction, American
ISBN :
Unnatural Acts
Author : Stuart Woods
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 36,33 MB
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 045123877X
Book Description
Includes excerpt from Stuart Woods's next thrilling Stone Barrinton novel, Collateral damage (p. (379-387)).
Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts
Author : Samuel S. Wineburg
Publisher : Critical Perspectives on the P
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 12,85 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781566398565
Book Description
Whether he is comparing how students and historians interpret documentary evidence or analyzing children's drawings, Wineburg's essays offer rough maps of how ordinary people think about the past and use it to understand the present. These essays acknowledge the role of collective memory in filtering what we learn in school and shaping our historical thinking.
Unnatural Acts and Other Stories
Author : Lucy Taylor
Publisher : Rhinoceros
Page : pages
File Size : 48,24 MB
Release : 1997-08-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781563335525
Book Description
Posthuman Bodies
Author : Judith M. Halberstam
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 28,83 MB
Release : 1995-12-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780253115584
Book Description
"... will draw a wide readership from the ranks of literary critics, film scholars, science studies scholars and the growing legion of 'literature and science' researchers. It should be among the essentials in a posthumanist toolbox." -- Richard Doyle Automatic teller machines, castrati, lesbians, The Terminator: all participate in the profound technological, representation, sexual, and theoretical changes in which bodies are implicated. Posthuman Bodies addresses new interfaces between humans and technology that are radically altering the experience of our own and others' bodies.
Acts of Intervention
Author : David Roman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,55 MB
Release : 1998-02-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780253211682
Book Description
Acts of Intervention traces the ways in which performance and theatre have participated in and informed the larger cultural politics of race, sexuality, citizenship and AIDS in the United States in the last fifteen years.
Acts of God
Author : Theodore Steinberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 14,6 MB
Release : 2006-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195309683
Book Description
This revised edition features a new chapter analyzing the failed response to Hurricane Katrina. Steinberg argues that it is wrong to see natural disasters as random outbursts of nature or expressions of divine judgment. He reveals how business and government decisions have paved the way for the greater losses of life and property.
Choreographing History
Author : Susan Leigh Foster
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,65 MB
Release : 1995-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253116505
Book Description
"... I have used essays from the book to help dance graduate students push their thinking beyond the studio and their own physical experience and to realize the varied resources, approaches, and theoretical positions possible in writing about the body." -- Dance Research Journal "Choreographing History... assembles an impressive diversity of sites, disciplines and critical approaches... [and] includes not only historical bodies and discourses, but also the very bodies of the historians themselves." -- Parachute "This volume is not only full of gems (the very lineup of preeminent scholars is impressive), but is also a neat cross-section of the academic conventions and mannerisms of our time." -- Dance Chronicle "... [an] important step... in the ineluctable dance by postmodern historians across a bridge that spans the gaps among disciplines, between theory and practice, and betweeen present and past." -- Theatre Journal Historians of science, sexuality, the arts, and history itself focus on the body, merging the project of writing about the body with theoretical concerns in the writing of history.
Decomposition
Author : Sue-Ellen Case
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 32,62 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Arts, Modern
ISBN : 9780253337238
Book Description
Essays aimed at understanding performance in a postmodern world.
Acts of Gaiety
Author : Sara Warner
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 39,75 MB
Release : 2012-10-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0472118536
Book Description
Against queer theory's long-suffering romance with mourning and melancholia and a national agenda that urges homosexuals to renounce pleasure if they want to be taken seriously, Acts of Gaiety seeks to reanimate notions of "gaiety" as a political value for LGBT activism by recovering earlier mirthful modes of political performance. The book mines the archives of lesbian-feminist activism of the 1960s–70s, highlighting the outrageous gaiety—including camp, kitsch, drag, guerrilla theater, zap actions, rallies, manifestos, pageants, and parades alongside "legitimate theater”-- at the center of the social and theatrical performances of the era. Juxtaposing figures such as Valerie Solanas and Jill Johnston with more recent performers and activists including Hothead Paisan, Bitch and Animal, and the Five Lesbian Brothers, Sara Warner shows how reclaiming this largely discarded and disavowed past elucidates possibilities for being and belonging. Acts of Gaiety explores the mutually informing histories of gayness as politics and as joie de vivre, along with the centrality of liveliness to queer performance and protest.
