Performance in a Time of Terror: Critical Mimesis and the Age of Uncertainty
Jenny Hughes
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Performance in a time of terror offers a thought-provoking investigation of the way performance has given shape and form to wars on terror past and present, as both a tactic of violence and a strategy of resistance.
The book focuses on an array of performances created during the ‘war on terror’ of the first decade of the twenty-first century. Beginning with the spate of carefully rehearsed beheadings carried out by Islamic insurgents in Iraq in 2004, a key proposal is that the radical in performance can be most clearly identified in acts of violence that have obliterated life. Here, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719085307
SKU
V9780719085307
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About Jenny Hughes
Jenny Hughes is Lecturer in Drama at the University of Manchester. -- .
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