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Drama Trauma

Specters of Race and Sexuality in Performance, Video and Art

Timothy Murray author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:18th Sep '97

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In this engaging cross-disciplinary study, Timothy Murray examines the artistic struggle over traumatic fantasies of race, gender, sexuality, and power. Establishing a retrospective dialogue between past and present, stage and video, Drama Trauma links the impact of trauma on recent political projects in performance and video with the specters of difference haunting Shakespeare's plays.
The book provides close readings of cultural formations as diverse as Shakespearean drama, the Statue of Liberty, contemporary plays by women, African-American performance, and feminist interventions in video, performance and installation. The texts discussed include:
* installations by Mary Kelly and Dawn Dedeaux,
* plays by Ntozake Shange, Rochelle Owens, Adrienne Kennedy, Marsha Norman and Amiri Baraka
* performances by Robbie McCauley, Jordan, Orlan, and Carmelita Tropicana
* stage, film and video productions of King Lear, Othello, Romeo and Juliet and All's Well that Ends Well.

' ... an intelligent, finely-argued, and always interesting book ... Murray provides a bravura performance of his own.' - Film-Philosophy

ISBN: 9780415157896

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 566g

320 pages