Kondo Worldmaking

Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0242-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten

Dorinne Kondo draws on critical ethnographic work and over twenty years of experience as a dramaturge and playwright to theorize how racialized labor, aesthetics, affect, genre, and social inequity operate in contemporary theater.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kondo, Dorinne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Overture 1
Entr'acte 1. Racial Affect and Affective Violence 17
Act I. Mise-en-Scène
1. Theoretical Scaffolding, Formal Architecture 25
2. Racialized Economies 56
Entr'acte 2. Acting and Embodiment 93
Act II. Creative Labor
3. (En)Acting Theory 97
4. The Drama behind the Drama 130
5. Revising Race 167
Entre'acte 3. The Structure of the Theater Company 205
Act III. Reparative Creativity
6. Playwriting as Reparative Creativity 209
7. Seamless, A Full-Length Play 237
Notes 311
Works Cited 325
Index 349

Über Autor(innen)

Dorinne Kondo is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and Anthropology at the University of Southern California and author of About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater and Crafting Selves: Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace.