Drama Trauma - 9780415157889

Taylor & Francis

Drama TraumaSpecters of Race and Sexuality in Performance, Video and Art\nAuthor(s): Timothy Murray\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415157889, 978-0415157889\nSynopsis\nIn this engaging cross-disciplinary study, Timothy Murray examines the artistic struggle over traumatic fantasies of race, gender, sexuality, and power. Establishing a retrospective dialogue between past and present, stage and video, Drama Trauma links the impact of trauma on recent political projects in performance and video with the specters of difference haunting Shakespeare's plays.\n The book provides close readings of cultural formations as diverse as Shakespearean drama, the Statue of Liberty, contemporary plays by women, African-American performance, and feminist interventions in video, performance and installation. The texts discussed include:\n * installations by Mary Kelly and Dawn Dedeaux,\n * plays by Ntozake Shange, Rochelle Owens, .