Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater

ISBN-13: 9781032090887 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 172 str.

Peilin Liang

Opis

Proposing the concept of transformance, a conscious and rigorous process of self-cultivation towards a re-conceptualized body, Peilin Liang examines the creative process of theatre-making by minoritized cultures in the (post)colonial and postmartial Taiwan of the 2000s.

Spis treści

List of Figures  Prologue  Acknowledgements  INTRODUCTION Transformance: In Search of a Body  CHAPTER ONE Island Bodies in the Nexus of Empires  CHAPTER TWO Energized Bodies: Cultural Hybridity as a Method of Transformance  CHAPTER THREE Rhythmic Bodies: Transformance as a Postmodern Project  CHAPTER FOUR Ritualized Bodies: Transformance as an Act of Worship  CHAPTER FIVE Joyous Bodies: Transformance and the State  CHAPTER SIX (Re)productive Bodies: Transformance in Deterioration  CONCLUSION Transformance as Repair  Index

O autorze

Peilin Liang is Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies at the National University of Singapore. She is the director of A Home on the Island, a transnational Practice as Research (PaR) project in applied theater. Her work has appeared in Theatre Topics, Theatre Research International, Contemporary Theatre Review, InterAsia Cultural Studies, Performance Research, and Research in Drama Education.