Performance as Political Act: The Embodied Self

by Randy Martin

.Coming at a time when scarce attention is being paid to new sources for a political impulse in the West, Performance as Political Act seeks to re-embody the political subject, arguing that when the mind has been dominated by mass communications as in Western capitalism, the body emerges as a site of opposition. Martin's study goes against the conventional wisdom of the three areas it seeks to synthesize: politics, the performing arts, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897891740
• ISBN13: 9780897891745
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.5"