Freak Performances - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Freak Performances write by Analola Santana. This book was released on 2018-10-15. Freak Performances available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The figure of the freak as perceived by the Western gaze has always been a part of the Latin American imaginary, from the letters that Columbus wrote about his encounters with dog-faced people to Shakespeare's Caliban. The freak acquires greater significance in a globalized, neoliberal world that defines the "abnormal" as one who does not conform mentally, physically, or emotionally and is unable or unwilling to follow the economic and cultural norms of the institutions in power. Freak Performances examines the continuing effects of colonialism on modern Latin American identities, with a particular focus on the way it has constructed the body of the other through performance. Theater questions the representations of these bodies, as it enables the empowerment of the silenced other; the freak as a spectacle of otherness finds in performance an opportunity for re-appropriation by artists resisting the dominant authority. Through an analysis of experimental theater, dance theater, performance art, and gallery-based installation art across eight countries, Analola Santana explores the theoretical issues shaped by the encounters and negotiations between different bodies in the current Latin American landscape.
Freak Inheritance
Freak Inheritance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Freak Inheritance write by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson. This book was released on 2024-08-27. Freak Inheritance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Freak Inheritance, both leading authors and emerging voices use cutting-edge disability and cultural theories to expose the operations of eugenicist thought in historical and contemporary culture. It is the follow-up to the field-defining Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body (1996).
Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and ‘Enfreakment’
Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and ‘Enfreakment’ - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and ‘Enfreakment’ write by Anna Kérchy. This book was released on 2013-02-14. Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and ‘Enfreakment’ available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection offers cultural historical analyses of enfreakment and freak shows, examining the social construction and spectacular display of wondrous, monstrous, or curious Otherness in the formerly relatively neglected region of Continental Europe. Forgotten stories are uncovered about freak-show celebrities, medical specimen, and philosophical fantasies presenting the anatomically unusual in a wide range of sites, including curiosity cabinets, anatomical museums, and traveling circus acts. The essays explore the locally specific dimensions of the exhibition of extraordinary bodies within their particular historical, cultural and political context. Thus the impact of the Nazi eugenics programs, state Socialism, or the Chernobyl catastrophe is observed closely and yet the transnational dimensions of enfreakment are made obvious through topics ranging from Jesuit missionaries’ diabolization of American Indians, to translations of Continental European teratology in British medical journals, and the Hollywood silver screen’s colonization of European fantasies about deformity. Although Continental European freaks are introduced as products of ideologically-infiltrated representations, they also emerge as embodied subjects endowed with their own voice, view, and subversive agency.
Freak to Chic
Freak to Chic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Freak to Chic write by Dominic Janes. This book was released on 2021-07-01. Freak to Chic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this unique intervention in the study of queer culture, Dominic Janes highlights that, under the gaze of social conservatism, 'gay' life was hiding in plain sight. Indeed, he argues that the worlds of glamour, fashion, art and countercultural style provided rich opportunities for the construction of queer spectacle in London. Inspired by the legacies of Oscar Wilde, interwar and later 20th-century men such as Cecil Beaton expressed transgressive desires in forms inspired by those labelled 'freaks' and, thereby, made major contributions to the histories of art, design, fashion, sexuality, and celebrity. Janes reinterprets the origins of gay and queer cultures by charting the interactions between marginalized freaks and chic fashionistas. He establishes a new framework for future analyses of other cities and media, and of the roles of women and diverse identities.
Queer Art
Queer Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Queer Art write by Renate Lorenz. This book was released on 2014-03-31. Queer Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A queer theory of visual art - based on extensive readings of art works Queer Art traces the question of how strategies of denormalization initiated by visual arts can be continued through writing. In the book's three chapters art theoretical debates are combined with queer theory, post-colonial theory, and (dis-)ability studies, proposing the three terms radical drag, transtemporal drag, and abstract drag. The works discussed include those by Zoe Leonard, Shinique Smith, Jack Smith, Wu Ingrid Tsang, Ron Vawter, Bob Flanagan, Henrik Olesen, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Sharon Hayes, and Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz.
