Troubling Violence: A Performance Project

by Elaine J. Lawless and M. Heather Carver

Troubling Violence: A Performance Project follows the collaboration between performance studies professor M. Heather Carver and ethnographic folklorist Elaine J. Lawless. The book traces the creative development of a performance troupe in which women take the stage to narrate true, harrowing experiences of domestic violence and then invite audience members to discuss the tales. Similar to the performances, the book presents real-life narratives...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604732083
• ISBN13: 9781604732085
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"