Michelle Liu Carriger examines fashion and clothing controversies of the nineteenth century, drawing on performance theory to reveal how the apparently superficial or frivolous deeply affects the creation of identity.
In Time in the Ditch, John McCumber explores the effects of McCarthyism on American philosophy in the 1940s and 1950 and the possibility that the political pressures of the McCarthy era...
Edited by David Schaafsma, Lauren DeJulio Bell and Roxanne Pilat
Contributions by Samira Ahmed, Dhana-Marie Branton, Anne Calcagno, Ana Castillo, Maxine Chernoff, Shelly M. Conner, Stuart Dybek, Saja Elshareif, Emil Ferris, Jessie Ann Foley, Charles Johnson, Rebecca Makkai, Daiva Markelis, James McManus, David Mura, Nnedi Okorafor, Christian Picciolini, Tony Romano, Erika Sánchez, George Saunders and Luis Alberto Urrea
Foreword by Luis Alberto Urrea
Growing Up Chicago is a collection of coming-of-age stories written by Chicagoland authors that reflects the diversity of the city and its metropolitan area. Primarily memoir, the book asks, What characterizes a Chicago author?
Edited by Leslie M. Alexander, Brandon R. Byrd and Russell Rickford
Contributions by Davarian Baldwin, Richard Benson II, Alexis Broderick, Charisse Burden-Stelly, Vincent Carretta, Kellie Carter-Jackson, Nathan DB Connolly, Marlene L Daut, Shannon C Eaves, Thavolia Glymph, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Jessica Marie Johnson, Jeffrey R Kerr-Ritchie, Deirdre Cooper Owens, Jessica Millward, William Sturkey, Quito Swan, Marisa Parham, Michael O. West and Christy Hyman
This transformative collection advances innovative scholarly approaches to Black intellectual history by foregrounding the experiences and ideas of people who lacked access to more privileged mechanisms of public discourse and power.
This book imagines new reciprocal relationships beyond the competitive forms of belonging suggested by the nation-state. The book employs the tropes of the horizon, sea, and sound as a critique of nation-state discourses and formations.
This is the first book in English to focus on the Theater of Narration, a genre characterized by narrators who write and perform works that revisit historical events of national importance from local perspectives.
Edited by Megan E. Geigner, Stuart J. Hecht and Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud
Contributions by Rosemarie K. Bank, Aymar Jean Christian, Shannon Epplett, Cat Gleason, Aaron Krall, LaRonika Marie Thomas, Laley Lippard, Laura A. Lodewyck, Meida McNeal, Travis Stern and Irina Zadov
This book brings together leading historians on the history of theater and performance in Chicago. The essays theorize a regional theater aesthetic that is inherently makeshift and marginal, reflecting the city’s segregation and exposing the transgressive possibilities of performance.
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, political and economic agendas in the reunified German capital have worked to dismantle the state‑subsidized stage. Institutional Theatrics charts the ways artists have reimagined the theater in response to these crises.
Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies, Objects, Archives examines twenty‑first‑century documentary theater in Latin America, demonstrating how material objects and archives—photographs, videos, and documents such as witness reports, legal briefs, and letters—come to life onstage.
