Performing Animality

Una Chaudhuri, New York University, USA Laura Cull, University of Surrey, UKHolly Hughes, University of Michigan, USAKim Marra, University of Iowa, USAGarry Marvin, University of Roehampton, UKMonica Mattfeld, University of Kent, UKLourdes Orozco, University of Leeds, UKJennifer Parker-Starbuck, University of Roehampton, UKCarrie Rohman, Lafayette College, USA Peta Tait, La Trobe University, AustraliaCatherine Young, City University of New York, USA

'Performing Animality: Animals in Performance Practices is an important and timely must-have book that is among the first to foreground the animal as an increasingly urgent matter for Performance Studies. It is also the first to gather into one volume the particular perspectives of theatre and performance scholars as innovative contributions to the interdisciplinary field of Animal Studies. The essays, elegantly assembled by editors Parker-Starbuck and Orozco from both established and emerging scholars, are fresh, bold, and readable. This book will be invaluable to both students and scholars in the field of theatre and performance studies, and to anyone interested in the provocations and interventions performance brings to Animal Studies.' - Maurya Wickstrom, The City University of New York, USA

• Introduction: Lourdes Orozco and Jennifer Parker-Starbuck PART I: SETTING THE STAGE 1. From Homo Performans to Interspecies Collaboration: Expanding the Concept of Performance to Include Animals; Laura Cull PART II: BULLS, DOGS, PIGS, BEARS, AND HORSES: ANIMALS IN PERFORMANCE 2. The Art of Fierceness: The Performance of the Spanish Fighting Bull; Garry Marvin 3. 'Genus Porcus Sophisticus': The Learned Pig and the Theatrics of National Identity in Late Eighteenth-Century London; Monica Mattfeld 4. 'A Very Good Act For an Unimportant Place': Animals, Ambivalence, and Abuse in Big-Time Vaudeville; Catherine Young 5. Acrobatic Circus Horses: Military Training to Natural Wildness; Peta Tait PART III: 'PERFORMING' ANIMALS AND 'THEATRES OF SPECIES' 6. Massive Bodies in Mortal Performance: War Horse and the Staging of Anglo-American Equine Experience in Combat; Kim Marra 7. Embattled Animals in a Theatre of Species; Una Chaudhuri 8. Animal Pasts and Presents: Taxidermied Time Travellers; Jennifer Parker-Starbuck 9. Effacing the Human: Rachel Rosenthal, Rats and Shared Creative Agency; Carrie Rohman PART IV: 'LOOKING AT/LOVING/WITH ANIMALS' 10. There and not There: Looking at Animals in Contemporary Theatre Practice; Lourdes Orozco 11. It's Hard to Spot the Queerness in this Image; Holly Hughes Index