Haptic Allegories: Kinship and Performance in the Black and Green Atlantic

ISBN-13: 9780415824002 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 212 str.

Kathleen Gough

Opis

Kinship and Performance in the Black and Green Atlantic advances an innovative and compelling approach to writing comparative studies of performance in transnational, intercultural relation to one another. Its chosen subject in this case is the cultural and political intersection of African and Irish diasporic peoples and movements.

Gough approaches her subject via five key "flashpoints" in Black/Green relations, moving from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. In turn, each of these is related to mediums of performance that were prevalent at the time, such as abolitionist oratory and melodrama, photography and tableaux, architecture and folk drama, television and political demonstrations, and visual art and dramaturgy.

By examining the unlikely kinship between social actors such as Ida B. Wells and Maud Gonne, Lady Augusta Gregory and Zora Neale Hurston, and Bernadette Devlin and Alice Childress, along with a host of old and new theatrical "characters," this book explores how a transmedial investigation of gender, community, and performance allows for a revision of historiography in Atlantic studies, while the study itself revises and reimagines key concepts central to performance studies.

Spis treści

List of Figures

Chapter One - Introduction: Kinship, Performance, and the Historical Real

Chapter Two - Orientation: Slavery meets the Famine

Chapter Three - The Image: Joan of Arc, Jim Crow, and the "Irish Question"

Chapter Four - Between the Words: Syncopated Rhythm and Tender Mapping

Chapter Five - Political Action: Kinship, Civil Rights, and Analog(ous) Troubles

Chapter Six - What Fresh Ghost Is This?

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Kathleen M. Gough is Associate Professor of Theatre Studies and resident dramaturge in the Department of Theatre at the University of Vermont, USA