Table of Contents

1: Introduction; I: Re-Sexing Culture; 2: Acting out Orientalism; 3: Posing the Question; 4: Doing it Anyway; II: Grave Performances; 5: Playing Dead in Stone, or, When is a Rose not a Rose? 1; 6: Spectacles of Suffering; 7: Festivities and Jubilations on the Graves of the Dead; III: Moving/Seeing; 8: Pygmalion's No-Body and The Body of Dance; 9: After US The Savage Goddess; 10: Flat-Out Vision; 11: Liveness; IV: Identity Politics; 12: Kinship, Intelligence, and Memory As Improvisation; 13: Forms of Appearance of Value; V: Performer/Performance; 14: Thoughts On My Career, The Other Weapon, and Other Projects

About the Author

Elin Diamond

Reviews

"A major contribution to the developing field of the study of cultural performance. . . . a very impressive collection of essays from a number of the leading scholars working in performance."
-Marvin Carlson, City University of New York
"A welcome analysis of material practices of 'performance' and their relation to political and critical endeavors in cultural studies. . . stunning."
-Timothy Murray, Cornell University