‘Raw Life’ and the Ruse of Empathy

Abstract

Introduction / Lynette Hunter -- Expanding the Political with Performance. Performance and Language Diversity in a Globalizing World / Moradewun Adejunmobi -- Zooming In and Out: Tactical Media Performance in Transnational Contexts / Marcela Fuentes -- The Role of Theatre in the Breaking and Making of Two African Nations: Ethiopia and Eritrea, 1916-2011 / Jane Plastow -- For the Eyes of the Dear Father: Staging National Unity in the North Korean Arirang Festival / Suk-Young Kim -- The Emaciated Spectator and the Witness of the Powerless / Alan Read -- Disturbing the Political with Performance. "Asking, We Walk" / Susan Kelly -- Colour Blind: Seeing Difference, Performing Sightlessness / Patrick Anderson -- Constellation: Engaging with Radical Devised Dance Theatre. Keith Hennessy's Sol Niger / Lynette Hunter -- Glocalqueer Pink Activism / Eng-Beng Lim -- The Palestinian State of Emergency and the Art Practice of Emily Jacir / Stephen Morton -- Critiquing the Political with Performance. Raw Life and the Ruse of Empathy / Frank Wilderson III -- Siting Geography: Octavio Solis and the Circulation of Performance / Jon Rossini -- Peter Sellars' Changing Conceptions of the Audience in Productions of Three Greek Plays / Peter Lichtenfels -- Kleenex Citizens and the Performance of Undisposability / Shannon Jackson., Includes bibliographical references and index.