Performance, Politics and Activism

Moradewun Adejunmobi Patrick Anderson Marcela A. Fuentes (Marsha Gall) Lynette Hunter Shannon Jackson Susan Kelly Suk-Young Kim Peter Lichtenfels Stephen Morton Jane Plastow Jon D. Rossini John Rouse Frank B. Wilderson III

Introduction; Lynette Hunter PART I: EXPANDING THE POLITICAL WITH PERFORMANCE 1. Performance and Language Diversity in a Globalizing World; Moradewun Adejunmobi 2. Zooming In and Out: Tactical Media Performance in Transnational Contexts; Marcela Fuentes 3. The Role of Theatre in the Breaking and Making of Two African Nations: Ethiopia and Eritrea, 1916-2011; Jane Plastow 4. For the Eyes of the Dear Father: Staging National Unity in the North Korean Arirang Festival; Suk-Young Kim 5. The Emaciated Spectator and the Witness of the Powerless; Alan Read PART II: DISTURBING THE POLITICAL WITH PERFORMANCE 6. 'Asking, We Walk'; Susan Kelly 7. Colour Blind: Seeing Difference, Performing Sightlessness; Patrick Anderson 8. Constellation: Engaging with Radical Devised Dance Theatre – Keith Hennessy's Sol Niger; Lynette Hunter 9. Glocalqueer Pink Activism; Eng-Beng Lim 10. The Palestinian State of Emergency and the Art Practice of Emily Jacir; Stephen Morton PART III: CRITIQUING THE POLITICAL WITHPERFORMANCE 11. Raw Life and the Ruse of Empathy; Frank Wilderson III 12. Siting Geography: Octavio Solis and the Circulation of Performance; Jon Rossini 13. Peter Sellars's Changing Conceptions of the Audience in Productions of Three Greek Plays; Peter Lichtenfels 14. Kleenex Citizens and the Performance of Undisposability; Shannon Jackson