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Staging Monstrous Bodies: Questioning Normative Orders brings together global perspectives from leading and emerging scholars to explore the intersections of monster studies and performances studies.
Divided into three parts, the volume explores the connection between monstrosity and performance, such as representations of violence, gender and sexuality contexts, disability studies perspectives, anti-racism and post-colonial issues, and monstrosity as an artistic practice and dramaturgical process, which discursively cross-pollinate the different sections of the book. The first section, The Mise-En-Scène of Monstrous Bodies, examines queer-feminist performance, bodybuilding as monstrous, monstrosity in costume-making and freak discourse in Latin America. Section two, De-Montage of the Monstrous, moves on to look at the historicization of medieval monsters and staging (in)justice and monstrosity. The third and final section, Monstrous Orders, includes messages on the rise of neo-Nazism in Europe, monstrosity in dance and an analysis of monstrosity in the writings of Diderot. Each section includes a roundtable discussion of what new theses, questions, and intellectual motifs are raised by the corresponding chapters.
With its global scope, Staging Monstrous Bodies is an essential book for theater, dance, and performance students at all levels, as well as for scholars in these fields.
Contents
Introduction: Towards a monstrous order
Part One: The Mise-En-Scène of Monstrous Bodies
1. The monstrous does not exist: Epistemological and queer-feminist reflections on non-binary figures
2. Breaking the Mold: Building Bodies between Gender Conformity and Monstrosity
3. Dress Eats Woman: Monstrous Costumes in Contemporary Performances
4. From Monster to Freak: A Latin American Genealogy of Corporeal Difference
5. ROUNDTABLE PART ONE: The Mise-En-Scène of Monstrous Bodies - Theses and Motifs
Part Two: De-Montage of the Monstrous
6. A Rhineland Werewolf and its Theatrical Legacy
7. LE SOUTENEUR NATUREL DES JUGEURS : Staging the Monstrosity of the Norm
8. Medusa from afar with the sounding body
9. Women Cut Open on Stage: Performing the De-Montage of Femininity as a Monstrous Practice
10. To Open the Shut Eyes of the Corpse: Performing Resurrections in Cadela Força - The bride and the goodnight Cinderella by Carolina Bianchi y Cara de Cavalo
11. ROUNDTABLE PART TWO: De-Montage of the Monstrous - Theses and Motifs
Part Three: Monstrous Orders
12. "There are only monsters here." On the theatrical uncovering of the no-longer-so-hidden in current political contexts
13. Appropriation as Expulsion: Claire Vivianne Sobottke's Performance Velvet as a Feminist Practice of Becoming Unrecognizable
14. Score for: Where Are The Monsters?
15. Monstrous Imagination: Denis Diderot and the Body of the Actor
16. ROUNDTABLE PART THREE: Monstrous Orders -Theses and Motifs
CODA: A Collection of Questions and Thesis to be Continued...