Soyica Colbert is a Professor of African American Studies and Theater and Performance Studies at Georgetown University. She is the author of The African American Theatrical Body: Reception, Performance and the Stage and Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics. Colbert co-edited The Psychic Hold of Slavery. She is currently working on two books projects, a monograph, “Becoming Free: An Intellectual Biography of Lorraine Hansberry,” and a co-edited collection, Race and Performance After Repetition.

Theory for Theatre Studies: Bodies offers a rich survey of the body in performance through a broad and diverse range of examples that refer to wider socio-cultural movements and concerns yet are firmly placed in theatre practice. Soyica Diggs Colbert draws arguments fluently, shifting from illustration to illustration, theory to theory, with ease and in a way that remains focused for the reader.

• Series PrefaceAcknowledgementsBodies: An IntroductionSection One: Historical Approaches to Theatre TheorySection Two: Extended Case StudiesSection Three: Porous Bodies: New InterpretationsReferencesFurther ReadingIndex

Soyica Colbert is a Professor of African American Studies and Theater and Performance Studies at Georgetown University. She is the author of The African American Theatrical Body: Reception, Performance and the Stage and Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics. Colbert co-edited The Psychic Hold of Slavery. She is currently working on two books projects, a monograph, “Becoming Free: An Intellectual Biography of Lorraine Hansberry,” and a co-edited collection, Race and Performance After Repetition.

Theory for Theatre Studies: Bodies offers a rich survey of the body in performance through a broad and diverse range of examples that refer to wider socio-cultural movements and concerns yet are firmly placed in theatre practice. Soyica Diggs Colbert draws arguments fluently, shifting from illustration to illustration, theory to theory, with ease and in a way that remains focused for the reader.

• Series PrefaceAcknowledgementsBodies: An IntroductionSection One: Historical Approaches to Theatre TheorySection Two: Extended Case StudiesSection Three: Porous Bodies: New InterpretationsReferencesFurther ReadingIndex

Soyica Colbert is a Professor of African American Studies and Theater and Performance Studies at Georgetown University. She is the author of The African American Theatrical Body: Reception, Performance and the Stage and Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics. Colbert co-edited The Psychic Hold of Slavery. She is currently working on two books projects, a monograph, “Becoming Free: An Intellectual Biography of Lorraine Hansberry,” and a co-edited collection, Race and Performance After Repetition.

Theory for Theatre Studies: Bodies offers a rich survey of the body in performance through a broad and diverse range of examples that refer to wider socio-cultural movements and concerns yet are firmly placed in theatre practice. Soyica Diggs Colbert draws arguments fluently, shifting from illustration to illustration, theory to theory, with ease and in a way that remains focused for the reader.

• Series PrefaceAcknowledgementsBodies: An IntroductionSection One: Historical Approaches to Theatre TheorySection Two: Extended Case StudiesSection Three: Porous Bodies: New InterpretationsReferencesFurther ReadingIndex