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Performance and Activism

Grassroots Discourse after the Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992

Szerző: Kamran Afary

Nyelv:

Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Lexington Books

Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten

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Much has been written about the Los Angeles riots of 1992, which brought out deep racial tensions th...

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Szerző

Kamran Afary

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2009

oldal

262

EAN

9780739133576

ISBN

0739133578

Enbook ID

04903320

Kiadó

Lexington Books

Súly

404

Méretek

228 x 152 x 26

Teljes leírás

Much has been written about the Los Angeles riots of 1992, which brought out deep racial tensions throughout the city, exposed by media images of police brutality. This book sheds light on another facet of the events, the birth of a dynamic grassroots activist and community organizing movement that has been little noticed by academics or even by the press. It also focuses on the theatrical production of Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, a performance created by Anna Deavere Smith. Performance and Activism analyzes a rich, eclectic, and ongoing ensemble of local activist struggles in the context of the history and political economy of Los Angeles. Building on the important critical urban studies work of Mike Davis and Edward Soja, it also draws on Dwight Conquergood's writings on performance ethnography to theorize the political work of grassroots formations such as alternative/underground media collectives, gang truce parties/picnics, and women-organized prisoner support and court watch groups, such as Mothers Reclaiming Our Children. The book focuses on these events through the inter-disciplinary approach of performance studies, highlighting 'performance-conscious activisms' that help bridge the enormous class, race, and gender divides of our society.