In her book "In a Different Voice," psychologist Carol Gilligan proffered the controversial idea that a psychology of male development could not suffice as a psychology of all human development, both male and female.Since the publication of that revolutionary book and her later work "The Birth of Pleasure," which argued that the pleasure of love is a common human denominator often repressed in a hierarchical culture, Gilligan has been recognized by some scholars as a pioneer of feminist thought and vilified by others as an essentialist and a proponent of gender difference.
In "Enacting...
In her book "In a Different Voice," psychologist Carol Gilligan proffered the controversial idea that a psychology of male development could not su...
From cannibalism to light-calligraphy, from self-harming to animal sacrifice, from meat entwined with sex toys to a commodity-embedded ice wall, the idiosyncratic output of Chinese time-based art over the past twenty-five years has invigorated contemporary global art movements and conversation. In "Beijing Xingwei," Meiling Cheng engages with such artworks created to mark China's rapid social, economical, cultural, intellectual, and environmental transformations in its post-Deng era."Beijing Xingwei"itself a critical artwork with text and images unfolding through the author s experiences...
From cannibalism to light-calligraphy, from self-harming to animal sacrifice, from meat entwined with sex toys to a commodity-embedded ice wall, t...
Auschwitz. Hiroshima. Cambodia s killing fields. The World Trade Center. The mass graves of Rwanda. These places of violent death have become part of the recreational landscape of tourism, an industry that is otherwise dedicated to pleasure and escape. In dark places like concentration camps, prisons, battlegrounds, and the sites of natural disasters, how are memory and trauma mediated by "thanotourism," or tourism of death? In "Death Tourism," Brigitte Sion brings together essays by some of the most trenchant voices in the field to look at the tensions created by the juxtaposition of...
Auschwitz. Hiroshima. Cambodia s killing fields. The World Trade Center. The mass graves of Rwanda. These places of violent death have become part of ...
A dance begins beneath the outstretched branches of the giant "umunyinya" tree in Rwanda. First there is drumming and clapping, then the lead dancers step into the center of the gathering. The dancing subsides and the "gacaca" court, the community hearings on the one hundred days of bloodshed known as the Rwandan Genocide, is called into session. This is what the ongoing process of reconciliation looks like nearly twenty years after the brutal, orchestrated murder of almost one million people in Rwanda. But this scene demands questions: How can court testimony be used to rebuild a cohesive...
A dance begins beneath the outstretched branches of the giant "umunyinya" tree in Rwanda. First there is drumming and clapping, then the lead dancers ...
The devil is a defiant, nefarious figure, the emblem of evil, and harbinger of the damned. However, the festive devilthe devil that dancesturns the most hideous acts into playful transgressions." Festive Devils of the Americas" is the first volume to present a transnational and performance-centered approach to this fascinating, feared, and revered character of fiestas, street festivals, and carnivals in North, Central, and South America. As produced and performed in both rural and urban communities and among neighborhood groups and councils, festive devils challenge the principles of...
The devil is a defiant, nefarious figure, the emblem of evil, and harbinger of the damned. However, the festive devilthe devil that dancesturns the mo...
Pataphysics, as invented by Alfred Jarry, is the science of imaginary solutions. Had Jarry been a Dante buff, he might have invented the screwy, hilarious, quirky characters that La Divina Caricatura strings together. Written by Lee Breuer, this trilogy of plays, adapted from his previous short stories, introduces us to: Rose the Dog (who thinks she is a woman); John, the junkie filmmaker (who is Rose the Dog's lover); Ponzi Porco, PhD (a pig in love with the New York Times); and the Warrior Ant (who, to impress his father, Trotsky the Termite, declares perpetual revolution of the bugs of the...
Pataphysics, as invented by Alfred Jarry, is the science of imaginary solutions. Had Jarry been a Dante buff, he might have invented the screwy, hilar...
Considered one of the most influential theatre practitioners of the 20th century, Polish director Jerzy Grotowski revolutionized contemporary theatre in multiple ways. Perhaps best known for his notion of poor theatre, Grotowski went beyond the confines of conventional theatre to systematically explore the possibilities of the human being in a performative context. In "Grotowski s Bridge Made of Memory," Dominika Laster analyzes core aspects of Grotowski s work such as body-memory, vigilance, witnessing, verticality, and transmission, arguing that these performance praxes involve a deliberate...
Considered one of the most influential theatre practitioners of the 20th century, Polish director Jerzy Grotowski revolutionized contemporary theatre ...
