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Unmarked: The Politics of Performance

AUTHOR: Peggy Phelan
ISBN: 0415068223
SHORT DESCRIPTION: Unmarked is a controversial analysis of the fraught relation between political and representational visibility in contemporary culture. Written from and for the Left, Unmarked rethinks the claims of visibility politics through a feminist...

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Unmarked: The Politics of Performance
- Book Review, by Peggy Phelan

Alisa Solomon The Women's Review of Books
"Phelan's explorations are grounded in . . . trenchant readings of specific artworks and events."

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InUnmarked, Peggy Phelan examines the relationship between political and representational visibility and invisibility within both mainstream culture and the avant-garde. Her controversial study of the politics of performance uses theories of psychoanalysis, feminism and cultural studies to examine issues in photography, film, theatre, anti-abortion demonstrations and performance art. Unmarked is a boldly speculative analysis of contemporary culture and will be of interest to performance theorists, cultural studies scholars, art critics and enthusiasts, intellectuals and activists.

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Book Review

Unmarked: The Politics of Performance
- Book Reviews, by Peggy Phelan

Unmarked: The Politics of Performance

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InUnmarked, Peggy Phelan examines the relationship between political and representational visibility and invisibility within both mainstream culture and the avant-garde. Her controversial study of the politics of performance uses theories of psychoanalysis,

feminism and cultural studies to examine issues in photography, film, theatre, anti-abortion demonstrations and performance art. Unmarked is a boldly speculative analysis of contemporary culture and will be of interest to performance theorists, cultural studies scholars, art

critics and enthusiasts, intellectuals and activists.

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