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Worldmaking
Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity
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English
Published/Copyright:
2018
About this book
Dorinne Kondo draws on critical ethnographic work and over twenty years of experience as a dramaturge and playwright to theorize how racialized labor, aesthetics, affect, genre, and social inequity operate in contemporary theater.
Author / Editor information
Dorinne Kondo is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and Anthropology at the University of Southern California and author of About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater and Crafting Selves: Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace.
Reviews
"A timely publication. . . [that] keenly reflects the complexity and entanglements of race, history, politics, representation and contemporary identities in North America."
-- David J. Scott The Australian Journal of Anthropology
"Working across disciplines, Kondo reverses the imperative of many scholars to read theory onto performance by instead focusing on the emergence of theory in theater, how it is deployed by theater artists and comes into contact with audiences. . . . For theater makers, Worldmaking serves as another kind of reparative, as it de-centers Eurocentric theatrical models in exchange for processes that enact the minoritarian, the non-hegemonic, the reparative."
-- Kristen Holfeuer Women & Performance
“This book … suits courses on theatre, race, and performance, and on ethnographic methods. Crucially, this book expands necessary conversations on race and dramaturgy, and ways in which ‘dramaturgical critique’—conscious of racial logics and embodied meanings—might make and repair theatrical and racial worlds.”
-- Jasmine Mahmoud TDR: The Drama Review
“Worldmaking is a stunning contribution to discussions of racial representation, affect, ethnography, and practice-led research in our post-racial world. Working to ‘defamiliarize’ American theatre for artists and scholars, the book re-evaluates the dichotomies of theory/practice, artistic passion/compensation, and resistance/complicity that are firmly ingrained in our thinking about the arts. The rigour with which Kondo encourages us to reassess artistic practices and scholarly enquiry, however, never verges on harsh criticism. Instead, it is with stirring generosity that she opens up avenues for further enquiry and redress.”
-- Jessica Nakamura Modern Drama
“Kondo demonstrates the power of theatre to address the complexities of race in contemporary America not only through what is seen onstage but also in the processes of rehearsal, revision, and reception, as artists question representational authority and negotiate collaboration.”
-- Josephine Lee Theatre Journal
"Kondo’s Worldmaking explores how artistic approaches might add to anthropological research and offers a multi-layered ethnography of US theatre. This book is also insightful for theatre practitioners and could be used for teaching undergraduates."
-- Cassis Kilian Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Overture
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ENTR’ACTE 1 Racial Affect and Affective Violence
17 - Act I Mise-en-scène
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Chapter 1 Theoretical Scaffolding, Formal Architecture
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Chapter 2 Racialized Economies
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ENTR’ACTE 2 Acting and Embodiment
93 - Act II Creative labor
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Chapter 3 (En)Acting Theory
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Chapter 4 The Drama behind the Drama
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Chapter 5 Revising Race
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ENTR’ACTE 3 The Structure of the Theater Company
205 - Act III Reparative creativity
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Chapter 6 Playwriting as Reparative Creativity
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Chapter 7 Seamless, A Full-Length Play
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Notes
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Works Cited
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Index
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
December 6, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9781478002420
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
376
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8 color illustrations
eBook ISBN:
9781478002420
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
