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Performance Studies and Negative Epistemology
Performance Apophatics
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About this book
Ideas about negativity, emptiness, nothingness, and disappearance have maintained great theoretical currency in the field of performance theory. Performance Apophatics argues that performance is often an ethical injunction against what it would know or seek to make known. The book explicates texts, performances, and theories of performance as negative epistemologies that encounter the unknown through the known, drawing from literature in theology and apophatic spirituality for guides and examples.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Performance Apophatics
- Chapter 2 Performance Studies and Negative Epistemology
- Chapter 3 Intercultural Performance and the Apophatics of Appropriation
- Chapter 4 An Apophatics of the Archive: In Memoriam Reverend Doctor Florence Li Tim-Oi
- Chapter 5 The Playwright as Negative Theologian: James Baldwin’s The Amen Corner and Blues for Mister Charlie
- Chapter 6 The Apophatics of the Object: Icon and Community
- Chapter 7 Conclusion: Learned Ignorance and Performative Unknowing: Unselfing the Self, Unworlding the World
- Afterword: Negative Epistemology in a ‘Post-Truth’ Age
- Bibliography
- Index