The ends of performance / edited by Peggy Phelan and Jill Lane. - New York : New York University Press, c1998. - xi, 372 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Introduction : the ends of performance / Peggy Phelan -- History, memory, necrophilia / Joseph Roach -- Seeing death : the photography of David Wojnarowicz / Robert Sember -- On colonial forgetting : the conquest of New Mexico and its Historia / Jill Lane -- Perfoming writing / Della Pollock -- Teaching "experimental critical writing" / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- This black body in question / Amanda Denise Kemp -- A fool's discourse : the buffoonery syndrome / Mady Schutzman -- Spare parts / Theresa M. Senft -- AmeRican accents syncopate the state / Doris Sommer -- Border watching / Diana Taylor -- Staging crisis : twin tales in moving politics / Randy Martin -- Bodies outside the state : Black British women playwrights and the limits of citizenship / May Joseph -- Genre trouble : (the) butler did it / Jon McKenzie -- The mirrored stage : reflections on the presence of Sylvia [Bataille] Lacan / Jamer Hunt -- Virtual criticism and the dance of death / Marcia B. Siegel -- The bed took up most of the room / Jane Blocker -- Orlan's performative transformations of subjectivity / Tanya Augsburg -- Intervention / Orlan -- Of mice, bugs and women / Deb Margolin --What is performance studies anyway? / Richard Schechner

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Theater--Anthropological aspects.
Arts.
Semiotics and the arts.

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