Exceptional Spaces

Essays in Performance and History

By: Della Pollock (Editor)

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Paperback | 9 February 1998

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Taking interdisciplinary and diverse approaches, these thirteen essays explore the multifaceted relationship between performance and history. By considering performance as both a useful frame for understanding historical practices and a mode of historical production itself--performance in history and performance as history--the contributors chart new directions in such fields as cultural studies, contemporary historiography, museum studies, and life narrative research. Geographically and chronologically, the collection's sweep is broad--ranging from the nineteenth century to the present, from Victorian theater to commissions of inquiry in Kenya, from dissent in post-Soviet Lithuania to plantation tours in the American South. Together, the essays make up a work that is truly interdisciplinary in breadth and focus. By combining the methodologies of history and performance studies, the contributors illuminate the structure and function of cultural production in all its forms. The contributors are Michael S. Bowman, Ruth Laurion Bowman, Elizabeth Gray Buck, Kay Ellen Capo, David William Cohen, Tracy Davis, Kirk W. Fuoss, Shannon Jackson, D. Soyini Madison, Carol Mavor, E. S. Atieno Odhiambo, Della Pollock, Jeffrey H. Richards, and Joseph R. Roach.

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This is performance studies at its best.Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University "This is performance studies at its best.Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University"

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction Making History Go	p. 1
Spectacular Histories	p. 47
Slave Spectacles and Tragic Octoroons: A Cultural Genealogy of Antebellum Performance	p. 49
Reading the Minister's Remains Investigations into the Death of the Honourable Minister John Robert Ouko in Kenya, February 1990	p. 77
Performance as Contestation an Agonistic Perspective on the Insurgent Assembly	p. 98
(dis)playing History	p. 119
Performing Southern History for the Tourist Gaze Antebellum Homo Tour Guide Performances	p. 142
Histories of Desire Performing Sex and Class	p. 159
Filthy -- Nay -- Pestilential Sanitation and Victorian Theaters	p. 161
Touching Netherplaces Invisibility in the Photographs of Hannah Cullwick	p. 187
The Politics of Seduction Theater, Sexuality, and National Virtue in the Novels of Hannah Foster	p. 238
the Museum In/As Performance Raids and Reifications	p. 259
Performance at Hull-House Museum, Microfiche, and Historiography	p. 261
Producing History	p. 317
That Was My Occupation Oral Narrative, Performance, and Black Feminist Thought	p. 319
Performing History in the Light of History	p. 343
Notes on the Contributors	p. 387
Index	p. 389
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