Theaters of Citizenship
Aesthetics and Politics of Avant-Gardist Performance in Egypt
dc.contributor.author | Pahwa, Sonali | |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2021-06-22T03:30:30Z | |
dc.identifier | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49663 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/70919 | |
dc.description.abstract | Theaters of Citizenship investigates the Egyptian movement for free theater, arguing that it evolved from an avant-gardist movement to an undercommons of revolutionary cultural practice. Using historiography, ethnography, and performance analysis, the book tells a story of this avant-garde from 2004-2014, analyzing its staging of rights claims, generational identity politics, and post-revolution citizenship. Using Moten and Harney’s theory of the undercommons, a space-time for politicized cultural practice, the book extends avant-gardist theater theory to consider the revolutionary potential of performance within and outside theater spaces. Pahwa considers the performer’s bodily repertoire as a medium of cultural and political citizenship, drawing on Diana Taylor’s concept of repertoire, and expanding it to account for how performance mediates futurist culture and revolutionary practice. | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.rights | open access | |
dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Performing Arts | |
dc.subject.other | Theater | |
dc.subject.other | History & Criticism | |
dc.title | Theaters of Citizenship | |
dc.title.alternative | Aesthetics and Politics of Avant-Gardist Performance in Egypt | |
dc.type | book | |
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy | 48d591b9-fcc1-45f5-8079-0e9222a4efeb | |
oapen.relation.isFundedBy | Knowledge Unlatched | |
oapen.relation.isbn | 9780810141759 | |
oapen.relation.isbn | 9780810141773 | |
oapen.collection | Knowledge Unlatched (KU) | |
oapen.imprint | Northwestern University Press | |
dc.number | 3724 | |
dc.relationisFundedBy | b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 |
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