Unmarked: The Politics of Performance

'Unmarked is a controversial analysis of the fraught relation between political and representational visibility in contemporary culture. Written from and for the Left, Unmarked rethinks the claims of visibility politics through a feminist psychoanalytic examination of specific performance texts — including photography, painting, film, theatre and anti-abortion-demonstrations.' (Excerpt from back cover)

Reprint of first edition published in 1993. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access level

Onsite

author

Peggy PHELAN

publisher

Routledge (London, United Kingdom)

Location code

REF.PHP5

Language

English

Keyword

performance art, feminism, cultural studies

Publication/Creation date

2006

No of pages

207

ISBN / ISSN

0415068223

No of copies

Content type

monograph

Chapter headings

1 Broken Symmetries: Memory, Sight, Love

2 Developing the Negative: Mapplethorpe, Schor, and Sherman

3 Spatial Envy: Yvonne Rainer's The Man Who Envied Women

4 The Golden Apple: Jennie Livingston's Paris Is Burning

5 Theatre and Its Mother: Tom Stoppard's Hapgood

6 White Men and Pregnancy: Discovering the Body to Be Rescued

7 The Ontology of Performance: Representation without Reproduction

8 Afterword: Notes on Hope

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