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Description:: “National Acts: Performance, Commemoration, and the Construction of American Public Memory” explores how sites of public commemoration created during and after the American Civil War crafted conceptions of American public memory and identities through performative processes. This dissertation looks at three commemorative efforts: the Freedmen’s Memorial Monument to Abraham Lincoln,...
Keyword:: public memory, performance studies, American culture, and public commemoration
Subject:: Theater history, American studies, and Museum studies
Creator:: Bryer, Rebekah M
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 08/23/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16732 and etdadmin_upload_1012939

Description:: An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and The Unfinished Art of Theater: Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil shows how theater was a key site in the struggle to redefine the relationship between art and social change and the rise of an international avant-garde in both nations from 1917 to 1934.
Keyword:: performance studies, avant-garde, Mexico, Brazil, and vanguardias
Subject:: Performing arts and Theater
Creator:: Townsend, Sarah J.
Owner:: Kirsten Markusic
Publisher:: Northwestern University Press
Language:: English
Date Uploaded:: 01/25/2023
Date Modified:: 01/25/2023
Date Created:: 2018
Resource Type:: Book
Alternate Identifier:: Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3740-0, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3741-7, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3742-4

Description:: Land and Water: Performing Ecologies of Statelessness in the Aftermath of the Vietnam/American War focuses on land and water as epistemological and ontological grammars to examine cultural productions of Vietnamese refugee narratives. Specifically, I analyze how Vietnamese/American oral history narrators, filmmakers, visual artists, and performance artists narrate refugee subjectivity in...
Keyword:: performance studies, oral history, political ecology, performance art, transnational feminist studies, and critical refugee studies
Subject:: Performance Studies
Creator:: Patricia T Nguyen
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/28/2019
Date Modified:: 11/20/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This dissertation deploys an interdisciplinary methodology, extending what is conventionally understood as discourse to include performance. It brings together the fields of performance studies, discourse analysis and theatre studies to document, contextualize, and analyze the events after the Los Angeles rebellion of 1992. It examines gang youth who turned to...
Keyword:: Anna Deavere Smith, performance studies, gangs, African American Studies, Los Angeles riots, and grass roots activism
Subject:: Performance Studies
Creator:: Kamran Afary
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 06/27/2018
Date Modified:: 06/27/2018
Date Created:: 2007-05-11
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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