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Theaters of Citizenship: Aesthetics and Politics of Avant-Gardist Performance in Egypt

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Theaters of Citizenship investigates the Egyptian movement for free theater, arguing that it evolved from an avant-gardist movement to an undercommons of revolutionary cultural practice. Using historiography, ethnography, and performance analysis, the book tells a story of this avant-garde from 2004-2014, analyzing its staging of rights claims, generational identity politics, and post-revolution citizenship. Using Moten and Harney’s theory of the undercommons, a space-time for politicized cultural practice, the book extends avant-gardist theater theory to consider the revolutionary potential of performance within and outside theater spaces. Pahwa considers the performer’s bodily repertoire as a medium of cultural and political citizenship, drawing on Diana Taylor’s concept of repertoire, and expanding it to account for how performance mediates futurist culture and revolutionary practice.

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792 PAH t

Publisher

: ., 2020

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780810141766

Classification

792

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text

Media Type

computer

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online resource

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Subject(s)

History & Criticism
Performing Arts / Theater

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Statement of Responsibility

Sonali Pahwa

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umi

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https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/d8e13ecb-3d2d-42f2-b939-e720a55f886f

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