Full Description
This book examines the enactment of gendered in/equalities across diverse Cultural forms, turning to the insights produced through the specific modes of onto-epistemological enquiry of embodied performance. It builds on work from the GRACE (Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe) project and offers both theoretical and methodological analyses of an array of activities and artworks. The performative manifestations discussed include theatre, installations, social movements, mega-events, documentaries, and literary texts from multiple geopolitical locales. Engaging with the key concepts of re-enactment and relationality, the contributions explore the ways in which in/equalities are relationally re-produced in and through individual and collective bodies. This multi- and trans-disciplinary collection of essays creates fruitful dialogues within and beyond Performance Studies, sitting at the crossroads of ethnography, event studies, social movements, visual studies, critical discourse analysis, and contemporary approaches to textualities emerging from post-colonial and feminist studies.
Contents
1 Performing Cultures of Equality: Embodiments, Visualities, Inscriptions -Emilia María Durán-Almarza, Carla Rodríguez-González, and Suzanne Clisby PART I Embodying (In)Equalities 2 Honey Pot Performance's Black Feminist Praxis: Embodiments of Collaboration and Collectivity -Meida Teresa McNeal 3 The Performance of Black Young Masculinity in Bola Agbaje's and Mojisola Adebayo's Council-Estate Plays -Paola Prieto López 4 Art's Political Potential and the Violence That the Art Does. On the Performative Operations of Krzysztof Wodiczko's Guests (2016) -Dorota Golańska and Aleksandra M. Różalska Part II Visualizing (In)Equalities 5 Tinted Visions: Performing Equalities Through Festive Decorations in LGBT-Themed Events in Hull (UK City of Culture 2017) -Barbara Grabher 6 Social Media Reverberations of Feminist Assemblies: Reflections After Non una di meno's Verona transfemminista Rally -Tomasso Trillò 7 Gender-Based Violence and the Performance of Masculinity: A Comparative Analysis of the Documentary Films Ma l'amore c'entra? and Serás hombre -Orianna Calderón Sandoval and Adelina Sánchez Espinosa PART III Inscribing (In)Equalities 8 Strangers, Persisters, and Killjoys: Confronting Gender Inequality through Performance Poetry -Esther Álvarez López 9 Imperialism's Performative Technologies: Race, Gender, and Wearable Devices in Aliette De Bodard's 'Immersion' -Eleanor Drage 10 Figures of a Gender Now upon Us: The Transfeminine in Contemporary Queer Fiction from the Philippines -Jaya Jacobo
