Monsters in Performance -

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Monsters in Performance boasts an impressive range of contemporary essays that delve into topical themes such as race, gender, and disability, to explore what constitutes monstrosity within the performing arts. An essential book for Theatre and Performance students of all levels as well as scholars....

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Introduction: Monsters and Performance Culture: Five New Theses

Michael M. Chemers and Analola Santana

Mythic Deviance

1. Bali's Rangda and Barong in Cosmic Balancing

Kathy Foley

2. Exterminating the Phantom: Nativist Constructions of Contagion and Monsters in Nineteenth-Century New York City

Mia Levenson

3. Married to the Monster: Gender and Moral Ambiguity on the Gothic Stage

Aoise Stratford

4. The Xt?abay as Monstrous Woman: Gender in Maya Cultural Production in the Yucat?n Peninsula

Sarah Campbell

Forbidden Eroticism

5. Monstrous Arousals: La Rose, Un Faune, La Faune

Penny Farfan

6. Girl/Not Girl: The Hemispheric Monsters of Alexis Scheer's Our Dear Dead Druglord

Lisa Jackson-Schebetta

7. Defending the Patriarchy: The Monstrous (Queer) Other and the Anti-Carnivalesque

Catherine (Katya) Vrtis

8. Monsters of Africa and the Loss of Identity

Anita Gonzalez

The Monstrous Body

9. A Genealogy of the Fu Manchu Moustache

Esther Kim Lee

10. Uncanny Affect, Performing Prosthetics: Disability, Monstrosity, and the Puppet

Laura Purcell-Gates

11. Monstrosity in a Pandemic: Hypercapacity, Debility, and Death in Repo! The Genetic Opera

Samuel Yates

12. On the Afterlife of Teratological Specimens

Margaret Werry

Strange Families

13. She Ain't Gonna Break: Theorizing the Life, Bare Life, and Living Dead Girls in The Devil's Rejects.

K. Scarlett Harrington and Bernadette Marie Calafell

14. Nuclear Normativity, Monstrous Masculinity, and Matter in Burning Vision.

Liz Fairchild

15. Undocumented Zombies: US-Mexican Immigration, The Walking Dead, and the Effort/Shape of Monsters

Jeff Kaplan