Worldmaking
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0094-5 (ISBN)
In this bold, innovative work, Dorinne Kondo theorizes the racialized structures of inequality that pervade theater and the arts. Grounded in twenty years of fieldwork as dramaturg and playwright, Kondo mobilizes critical race studies, affect theory, psychoanalysis, and dramatic writing to trenchantly analyze theater's work of creativity as theory: acting, writing, dramaturgy. Race-making occurs backstage in the creative process and through economic forces, institutional hierarchies, hiring practices, ideologies of artistic transcendence, and aesthetic form. For audiences, the arts produce racial affect--structurally over-determined ways affect can enhance or diminish life. Upending genre through scholarly interpretation, vivid vignettes, and Kondo's original play, Worldmaking journeys from an initial romance with theater that is shattered by encounters with racism, toward what Kondo calls reparative creativity in the work of minoritarian artists Anna Deavere Smith, David Henry Hwang, and the author herself. Worldmaking performs the potential for the arts to remake worlds, from theater worlds to psychic worlds to worldmaking visions for social transformation.
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.
Acknowledgments ix
Overture 1
Entr'acte 1. Racial Affect and Affective Violence 17
Act I. Mise-en-Scène
1. Theoretical Scaffolding, Formal Architecture 25
2. Racialized Economies 56
Entr'acte 2. Acting and Embodiment 93
Act II. Creative Labor
3. (En)Acting Theory 97
4. The Drama behind the Drama 130
5. Revising Race 167
Entre'acte 3. The Structure of the Theater Company 205
Act III. Reparative Creativity
6. Playwriting as Reparative Creativity 209
7. Seamless, A Full-Length Play 237
Notes 311
Works Cited 325
Index 349
Erscheinungsdatum | 15.11.2018 |
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Zusatzinfo | 8 color illustrations |
Verlagsort | North Carolina |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 522 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4780-0094-5 / 1478000945 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4780-0094-5 / 9781478000945 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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