[PDF.85pn] Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories

Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories

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 | #562026 in Books |  Peggy Phelan |  1997-03-26 |  1997-02-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.21 x.46 x6.14l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 208 pages

 | Mourning Sex Performing Public Memories

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||12 of 14 people found the following review helpful.| Blurring the line between performance and criticism|By Ryan McGee|A heartfelt and harrowing examination of various cultural elements, as disparate as the Rose Theatre in london to the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings, in which Phelan has found the common thread of the public performance of mourning. "Mourning" for Phelan means not merely the connotative sense of sadness| |'As with Phelan's Unmarked, this book has much to recommend it to postgraduate students in any of the arts or social sciences.' - New Theatre Quarterly|About the Author|P

This is a book about the exhilaration and the catastrophe of embodiment. Analyzing different instances of injured bodies, Peggy Phelan considers what sustained attention to the affective force of trauma might yield for critical theory. Advocating what she calls "performative writing", she creates an extraordinary fusion of critical and creative thinking which erodes the distinction between art and theory, fact and fiction.
The bodies she examines here include Christ'...

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