{"product_id":"worldmaking-9781478000730","title":"Worldmaking","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDorinne Kondo draws on critical ethnographic work and over twenty years of experience as a dramaturge and playwright to theorize how racialized labor, aesthetics, affect, genre, and social inequity operate in contemporary theater.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A timely publication. . . [that] keenly reflects the complexity and entanglements of race, history, politics, representation and contemporary identities in North America.\" -- David J. Scott * The Australian Journal of Anthropology *\u003cbr\u003e\"Working across disciplines, Kondo reverses the imperative of many scholars to read theory onto performance by instead focusing on the emergence of theory in theater, how it is deployed by theater artists and comes into contact with audiences. . . . For theater makers, \u003ci\u003eWorldmaking\u003c\/i\u003e serves as another kind of reparative, as it de-centers Eurocentric theatrical models in exchange for processes that enact the minoritarian, the non-hegemonic, the reparative.\" -- Kristen Holfeuer * Women \u0026amp; Performance *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book … suits courses on theatre, race, and performance, and on ethnographic methods. Crucially, this book expands necessary conversations on race and dramaturgy, and ways in which ‘dramaturgical critique’—conscious of racial logics and embodied meanings—might make and repair theatrical \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e racial worlds.”\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jasmine Mahmoud * TDR: The Drama Review *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eWorldmaking\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning contribution to discussions of racial representation, affect, ethnography, and practice-led research in our post-racial world. Working to ‘defamiliarize’ American theatre for artists and scholars, the book re-evaluates the dichotomies of theory\/practice, artistic passion\/compensation, and resistance\/complicity that are firmly ingrained in our thinking about the arts. The rigour with which Kondo encourages us to reassess artistic practices and scholarly enquiry, however, never verges on harsh criticism. Instead, it is with stirring generosity that she opens up avenues for further enquiry and redress.” -- Jessica Nakamura * Modern Drama *\u003cbr\u003e“Kondo demonstrates the power of theatre to address the complexities of race in contemporary America not only through what is seen onstage but also in the processes of rehearsal, revision, and reception, as artists question representational authority and negotiate collaboration.”\u003cbr\u003e   -- Josephine Lee * Theatre Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\"Kondo’s \u003ci\u003eWorldmaking\u003c\/i\u003e explores how artistic approaches might add to anthropological research and offers a multi-layered ethnography of US theatre. This book is also insightful for theatre practitioners and could be used for teaching undergraduates.\" -- Cassis Kilian * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Overture  1\u003cbr\u003e Entr'acte 1. Racial Affect and Affective Violence  17\u003cbr\u003e Act I. Mise-en-Scène\u003cbr\u003e 1. Theoretical Scaffolding, Formal Architecture  25\u003cbr\u003e 2. Racialized Economies  56\u003cbr\u003e Entr'acte 2. Acting and Embodiment  93\u003cbr\u003e Act II. Creative Labor\u003cbr\u003e 3. (En)Acting Theory  97\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Drama behind the Drama  130\u003cbr\u003e 5. Revising Race  167\u003cbr\u003e Entre'acte 3. The Structure of the Theater Company  205\u003cbr\u003e Act III. Reparative Creativity\u003cbr\u003e 6. Playwriting as Reparative Creativity  209\u003cbr\u003e 7. \u003ci\u003eSeamless\u003c\/i\u003e, A Full-Length Play  237\u003cbr\u003e Notes  311\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited  325\u003cbr\u003e Index  349\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408969048407,"sku":"9781478000730","price":140.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478000730.jpg?v=1730504905","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/worldmaking-9781478000730","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}