Performance, Art, and Politics in the African Diaspora: Necropolitics and the Black Body

by Myron Beasley and Myron M. Beasley

This book examines necropolitics and performance art, with a particular focus on the black body and the African diaspora.

In this book, Myron M. Beasley situates artists as cultural workers and theorists who illuminate the political linkages between their own and others' specific locales. The focus is an interrogation of the political systems that dictate and determine the value of lives (and decide which lives matter) through a lens of performance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367136929
• ISBN13: 9780367136925
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"