Peilin Liang

Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Proposing the concept of transformance, a conscious and rigorous process of self-cultivation towards a re-conceptualized body, Peilin Liang examines the creative process of theatre-making by minoritized cultures in the (post)colonial and postmartial Taiwan of the 2000s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000468311
• Artikelnr.: 57213565

Autorenporträt

Peilin Liang is Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies at the National University of Singapore. She is the director of A Home on the Island, a transnational Practice as Research (PaR) project in applied theater. Her work has appeared in Theatre Topics, Theatre Research International, Contemporary Theatre Review, InterAsia Cultural Studies, Performance Research, and Research in Drama Education.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Prologue Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION Transformance: In
Search of a Body CHAPTER ONE Island Bodies in the Nexus of Empires CHAPTER
TWO Energized Bodies: Cultural Hybridity as a Method of Transformance
CHAPTER THREE Rhythmic Bodies: Transformance as a Postmodern Project
CHAPTER FOUR Ritualized Bodies: Transformance as an Act of Worship CHAPTER
FIVE Joyous Bodies: Transformance and the State CHAPTER SIX (Re)productive
Bodies: Transformance in Deterioration CONCLUSION Transformance as Repair
Index