Performing Animality (eBook)

Una Chaudhuri, New York University, USA Laura Cull, University of Surrey, UK Holly Hughes, University of Michigan, USA Kim Marra, University of Iowa, USA Garry Marvin, University of Roehampton, UK Monica Mattfeld, University of Kent, UK Lourdes Orozco, University of Leeds, UK Jennifer Parker-Starbuck, University of Roehampton, UK Carrie Rohman, Lafayette College, USA Peta Tait, La Trobe University, Australia Catherine Young, City University of New York, USA

Introduction: Lourdes Orozco and Jennifer Parker-Starbuck PART I: SETTING THE STAGE 1. From Homo Performans to Interspecies Collaboration: Expanding the Concept of Performance to Include Animals; Laura Cull PART II: BULLS, DOGS, PIGS, BEARS, AND HORSES: ANIMALS IN PERFORMANCE 2. The Art of Fierceness: The Performance of the Spanish Fighting Bull; Garry Marvin 3. 'Genus Porcus Sophisticus': The Learned Pig and the Theatrics of National Identity in Late Eighteenth-Century London; Monica Mattfeld 4. 'A Very Good Act For an Unimportant Place': Animals, Ambivalence, and Abuse in Big-Time Vaudeville; Catherine Young 5. Acrobatic Circus Horses: Military Training to Natural Wildness; Peta Tait PART III: 'PERFORMING' ANIMALS AND 'THEATRES OF SPECIES' 6. Massive Bodies in Mortal Performance: War Horse and the Staging of Anglo-American Equine Experience in Combat; Kim Marra 7. Embattled Animals in a Theatre of Species; Una Chaudhuri 8. Animal Pasts and Presents: Taxidermied Time Travellers; Jennifer Parker-Starbuck 9. Effacing the Human: Rachel Rosenthal, Rats and Shared Creative Agency; Carrie Rohman PART IV: 'LOOKING AT/LOVING/WITH ANIMALS' 10. There and not There: Looking at Animals in Contemporary Theatre Practice; Lourdes Orozco 11. It's Hard to Spot the Queerness in this Image; Holly Hughes Index