Drama Trauma: Specters of Race and Sexuality in Performance, Video and Art FROM THE PUBLISHER
In this engaging interdisciplinary 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 specters of
difference that haunt Shakespeare's plays with recent political projects in performance and video. Murray provides close readings of cultural formations as diverse as Shakespearean drama, the Statue of Liberty, contemporary feminist plays, African-American performance, and feminist
interventions in video, performance and installation. The texts discussed include plays by Ntozake Shange and Amiri Baraka, installations by Mary Kelly, performances by Carmelita Tropicana, as well as productions of King Lear, Othello and Romeo and Juliet.
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Murray (English, Cornell U.) examines the artistic struggle over traumatic fantasies of race, gender, sexuality, and power. He provides close readings of installations by Marry 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; and state, film and video productions of , and . Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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