Cities of the dead circum-Atlantic performance

Joseph Roach reveals how performance can revise the unwritten past, comparing patterns of remembrance and forgetting in how communities forge their identities and imagine their futures. He examines the syncretic performance traditions of Europe, Africa, and the Americas in the urban sites of London...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Roach, Joseph R., 1947- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS 2021.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b47444411*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction: History, Memory, and Performance
  • 2. Echoes in the Bone
  • 3. Betterton's Funeral
  • 4. Feathered Peoples
  • 5. One Blood
  • 6. Carnival and the Law
  • Epilogue: New Frontiers
  • References
  • Index.