Ebook: Politics of Practice: A Rhetoric of Performativity
Author: Lynette Hunter
- Tags: Cultural and Media Studies, Contemporary Theatre, Performing Arts, Performers and Practicioners, Aesthetics
- Series: Performance Philosophy
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Springer International Publishing
- Edition: 1st ed. 2019
- Language: English
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This book discusses affective practices in performance through the study of four contemporary performers – Keith Hennessy, Ilya Noé, Caro Novella, and duskin drum – to suggest a tentative rhetoric of performativity generating political affect and permeating attempts at social justice that are often alterior to discourse. The first part of the book makes a case for the political work done alongside discourse by performers practising with materials that are not-known, in ways that are directly relevant to people carrying out their daily lives. In the second part of the book, four case study chapters circle around figures of irresolvable paradox – hendiadys, enthymeme, anecdote, allegory – that gesture to what is not-known, to study strategies for processes of becoming, knowing and valuing. These figures also shape some elements of these performances that make up a suggested rhetorical stance for performativity.