Staging Monstrous Bodies
Questioning Normative Orders
$123.83
- Paperback
217 pages
- Release Date
24 September 2025
Summary
Staging Monstrous Bodies: Questioning Normative Orders brings together global perspectives from leading and emerging scholars to explore the intersections of monster studies and performance studies.
Divided into three parts, the volume explores the connection between monstrosity and performance, such as representations of violence, gender and sexuality contexts, disability studies perspectives, anti-racism and post-colonial issues, and monstrosity as an artistic practice and …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781032910673 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1032910674 |
| Author: | Michael Mark Chemers, Ekaterina Trachsel, Gerald Siegmund |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 217 |
| Release Date: | 24 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
Michael Mark Chemers
Michael Mark Chemers is a Professor of Dramatic Literature and Chair of the Department of Performance, Play & Design at the University of California Santa Cruz, USA. He is the author and co-editor of several books on monsters in performance, freak shows, and dramaturgy.
Ekaterina Trachsel is a Theater Scholar and Theater-Maker currently working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. Her research focuses on contemporary dramaturgies, institutional change, and theatrical stagings of monstrous bodies and orders.
Gerald Siegmund is a Professor of Applied Theatre Studies at the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. His research focuses on forms of contemporary theatre, dance, and performance, aesthetics, theories of memory, and the intermediality of theatre in relation to the visual arts.
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