Critical Theory And Performance - 92 edition

General Introduction
Cultural Studies
Introduction
For Whom Is the King a King? Issues of Intercultural Production, Perception, and Reception in a Kathakali King Lear
Performance Theory, Hmong Shamans, and Cultural Politics
Under the "Trickster's" Sign: Toward a Reading of Ntozake Shange and Femi Osofisan
David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly and Philip Kan Gotanda's Yankee Dawg You Die: Repositioning Chinese-American Marginality on the American Stage
Invasions Friendly and Unfriendly: The Dramaturgy of Direct Theater
Semiotics and Deconstruction
Introduction
Alceste in Hollywood: A Semiotic Reading of The Misanthrope
Unspeakable Justice: David Hare's Fanshen
Textuality and Authority in Theater and Drama: Some Contemporary Possibilities
After Marx
Introduction
Historicizing the Relations of Theatrical Production
Resistance to Theory: The Contradictions of Post-Cold War Criticism
Comedy About the Failure of Comedy: Stand-up Comedy and Postmodernism
Performing All Our Lives: AIDS, Performance, Community
Feminism
Introduction
Fe/male Impersonation: The Discourse of Camp
Focus on the Body: Pain, Praxis, and Pleasure in Feminist Performance
Practicing Cultural Disruptions: Gay and Lesbian Representation and Sexuality
Mrs. Siddons Looks Back in Anger: Feminist Historiography for Eighteenth-Century British Theater
Theater History and Historiography
Introduction
Annie Oakley and Her Ideal Husband of No Importance
Theater and Dialogism
The Doubled Subject and the New Playwrights Theatre, 1927-1929
Fascist Ideology and Theatricalization
Hermeneutics and Phenomenology
Introduction
History, Hermeneutics, and Narrativity
The Phenomenological Attitude
Psychoanalysis
Introduction
The Violence of "We": Politicizing Identification
Lacan's Antigone: A Case Study in Psychoanalytical Ethics
Critical Convergences
Introduction
Theory/History/Revolution
Ideology, Performance, and the Illusions of Demystification
Contributors
Index