Drama Trauma: Specters of Race and Sexuality in Performance, Video and Art

by Timothy Murray

Book Overview

In this engaging cross-disciplinary study, Timothy Murray examines the artistic struggle over traumatic fantasies of race, gender, sexuality, and power. Establishing a retrospective dialogue between past and present, stage and video, Drama Trauma links the impact of trauma on recent political projects in performance and video with the specters of difference haunting Shakespeare's plays.
The book provides close readings of cultural formations as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415157889
• ISBN13: 9780415157889
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"