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23 produkter
Habla!
Speaking Bodies and Dancing Our América
Inbunden, 2026
1142 kr
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Under colonial repression and the rationalizing ideals of Enlightenment thought, one practice has long carried the pulse of resistance: dance.Habla! explores how the dancing body speaks – how, through movement, sound, and rhythm, Latinx American communities enact forms of knowing and being that …
Habla!
Speaking Bodies and Dancing Our América
Häftad, 2026
338 kr
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Under colonial repression and the rationalizing ideals of Enlightenment thought, one practice has long carried the pulse of resistance: dance.Habla! explores how the dancing body speaks – how, through movement, sound, and rhythm, Latinx American communities enact forms of knowing and being that …
Realist Ecstasy
Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature
Inbunden, 2020
1158 kr
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Honorable Mention, Barnard Hewitt Award from the American Society for Theater ResearchExplores the intersection and history of American literary realism and the performance of spiritual and racial embodiment. Recovering a series of ecstatic performances in late nineteenth- and early …
People Get Ready
Performance and Practice in the Long Civil Rights Movement
Inbunden, 2027
1142 kr
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Reframes civil rights history through the lens of rehearsal and embodied preparationThe spectacular public moments—the marches, sit-ins, and defiant protests—of the civil rights movement are etched in the global imagination. Yet behind these iconic events lay an intricate, often overlooked world of …
Black Patience
Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation
Inbunden, 2022
1037 kr
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Honorable Mention, 2024 Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies (New York University)2024 College Language Association Book Award Winner2023 Hooks National Book Award Winner (Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change)Honorable Mention, Association for the …
Black Patience
Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation
Häftad, 2022
352 kr
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Honorable Mention, 2024 Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies (New York University)2024 College Language Association Book Award Winner2023 Hooks National Book Award Winner (Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change)Honorable Mention, Association for the …
Queer Nuyorican
Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida
Av Karen Jaime
Inbunden, 2021
1037 kr
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Finalist for The Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, given by the American Society for Theatre Research. Silver Medal Winner of The Victor Villaseñor Best Latino Focused Non-Fiction Book Award, given by the International Latino Book Awards. Honorable Mention for the …
Queer Nuyorican
Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida
Av Karen Jaime
Häftad, 2021
352 kr
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Finalist for The Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, given by the American Society for Theatre Research. Silver Medal Winner of The Victor Villaseñor Best Latino Focused Non-Fiction Book Award, given by the International Latino Book Awards. Honorable Mention for the …
Like Children
Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America
Inbunden, 2024
1158 kr
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Finalist, 2025 PROSE Awards: LiteratureA new history of manhood, race, and hierarchy in American childhoodLike Children argues that the child has been the key figure giving measure and meaning to the human in thought and culture since the early American period. Camille Owens demonstrates that white …
Like Children
Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America
Häftad, 2024
377 kr
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Finalist, 2025 PROSE Awards: LiteratureA new history of manhood, race, and hierarchy in American childhoodLike Children argues that the child has been the key figure giving measure and meaning to the human in thought and culture since the early American period. Camille Owens demonstrates that white …
F*ck the Army!
How Soldiers and Civilians Staged the GI Movement to End the Vietnam War
Av Lindsay Goss
Inbunden, 2024
1158 kr
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Reveals the theatrical dimensions of civilian support for the revolutionary GI Movement of the 1960s-70sPerformance played a role both crucial and complicated in the antiwar activism of the 1960s and 1970s. As soldiers and civilian actors, activists, and celebrities worked together to end the …
F*ck the Army!
How Soldiers and Civilians Staged the GI Movement to End the Vietnam War
Av Lindsay Goss
Häftad, 2024
377 kr
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Reveals the theatrical dimensions of civilian support for the revolutionary GI Movement of the 1960s-70sPerformance played a role both crucial and complicated in the antiwar activism of the 1960s and 1970s. As soldiers and civilian actors, activists, and celebrities worked together to end the …
Disability Works
Performance After Rehabilitation
Inbunden, 2024
1158 kr
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Winner, 2025 C.L.R. James Award, awarded by the Working-Class Studies AssociationFinalist, 2025 PROSE Awards: Music and the Performing Arts A cultural history of disability, performance, and work in the modern United StatesIn 1967, the US government funded the National Theatre of the Deaf, a …
Disability Works
Performance After Rehabilitation
Häftad, 2024
393 kr
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Winner, 2025 C.L.R. James Award, awarded by the Working-Class Studies AssociationFinalist, 2025 PROSE Awards: Music and the Performing Arts A cultural history of disability, performance, and work in the modern United StatesIn 1967, the US government funded the National Theatre of the Deaf, a …
Art of Confession
The Performance of Self from Robert Lowell to Reality TV
Inbunden, 2017
1153 kr
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The story of a new style of art—and a new way of life—in postwar America: confessionalism. What do midcentury "confessional" poets have in common with today's reality TV stars? They share an inexplicable urge to make their lives an open book, and also a sense that this book can never be finished. …
Redface
Race, Performance, and Indigeneity
Inbunden, 2024
1037 kr
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Considers the character of the "Stage Indian" in American theater and its racial and political impact Redface unearths the history of the theatrical phenomenon of redface in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Like blackface, redface was used to racialize Indigenous peoples and nations, and …
Redface
Race, Performance, and Indigeneity
Häftad, 2024
338 kr
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Considers the character of the "Stage Indian" in American theater and its racial and political impact Redface unearths the history of the theatrical phenomenon of redface in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Like blackface, redface was used to racialize Indigenous peoples and nations, and …
Currencies of Cruelty
Slavery, Freak Shows, and the Performance Archive
Inbunden, 2026
1153 kr
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Uncovers a haunting yet vital record of bodies commodified, archived, and performedCurrencies of Cruelty is a bold and incisive reconsideration of the relationship between enslavement, disability, and performance in 19th- and early 20th-century America. Danielle Bainbridge traces how the transition …
Currencies of Cruelty
Slavery, Freak Shows, and the Performance Archive
Häftad, 2026
338 kr
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Uncovers a haunting yet vital record of bodies commodified, archived, and performedCurrencies of Cruelty is a bold and incisive reconsideration of the relationship between enslavement, disability, and performance in 19th- and early 20th-century America. Danielle Bainbridge traces how the transition …
Mama, Don't You Weep
Black Motherhood, Performance, and the Costs of Grief
Inbunden, 2027
1142 kr
Kommande
How Black maternal grief sustains, resists, and remakes Black lifeIn 1955, Mamie Till-Mobley's decision to display her son's brutalized body transformed private mourning into public activism, establishing a paradigm of "grief capital." In Mama, Don't You Weep, Rhaisa Kameela Williams interrogates …
Mama, Don't You Weep
Black Motherhood, Performance, and the Costs of Grief
Häftad, 2027
321 kr
Kommande
How Black maternal grief sustains, resists, and remakes Black lifeIn 1955, Mamie Till-Mobley's decision to display her son's brutalized body transformed private mourning into public activism, establishing a paradigm of "grief capital." In Mama, Don't You Weep, Rhaisa Kameela Williams interrogates …
Realist Ecstasy
Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature
Häftad, 2020
425 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Honorable Mention, Barnard Hewitt Award from the American Society for Theater ResearchExplores the intersection and history of American literary realism and the performance of spiritual and racial embodiment. Recovering a series of ecstatic performances in late nineteenth- and early …
Art of Confession
The Performance of Self from Robert Lowell to Reality TV
Häftad, 2017
395 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The story of a new style of art—and a new way of life—in postwar America: confessionalism. What do midcentury "confessional" poets have in common with today's reality TV stars? They share an inexplicable urge to make their lives an open book, and also a sense that this book can never be finished. …
