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dc.contributor.authorPahwa, Sonali
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-22T03:30:30Z
dc.date.available2021-06-22T03:30:30Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49663
dc.description.abstractTheaters of Citizenship investigates the Egyptian movement for free theater, arguing that it evolved from an avant-gardist movement to an undercommons of revolutionary cultural practice. Using historiography, ethnography, and performance analysis, the book tells a story of this avant-garde from 2004-2014, analyzing its staging of rights claims, generational identity politics, and post-revolution citizenship. Using Moten and Harney’s theory of the undercommons, a space-time for politicized cultural practice, the book extends avant-gardist theater theory to consider the revolutionary potential of performance within and outside theater spaces. Pahwa considers the performer’s bodily repertoire as a medium of cultural and political citizenship, drawing on Diana Taylor’s concept of repertoire, and expanding it to account for how performance mediates futurist culture and revolutionary practice.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studiesen_US
dc.subject.otherPerforming Arts
dc.subject.otherTheater
dc.subject.otherHistory & Criticism
dc.titleTheaters of Citizenship
dc.title.alternativeAesthetics and Politics of Avant-Gardist Performance in Egypt
dc.typebook
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oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9780810141759
oapen.relation.isbn9780810141773
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.imprintNorthwestern University Press
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oapen.identifier.isbn9780810141759
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