Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity
ISBN-13:
9781478000730
ISBN-10:
1478000732
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Dorinne Kondo
Publication date:
2018
Publisher:
Duke University Press Books
Format:
Hardcover
376 pages
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ISBN-13:
9781478000730
ISBN-10:
1478000732
Edition:
Illustrated
Author:
Dorinne Kondo
Publication date:
2018
Publisher:
Duke University Press Books
Format:
Hardcover
376 pages
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Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity (ISBN-13: 9781478000730 and ISBN-10: 1478000732), written by authors
Dorinne Kondo, was published by Duke University Press Books in 2018.
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In this bold, innovative work, Dorinne Kondo theorizes the racialized structures of inequality that pervade theater and the arts. Grounded in twenty years of fieldwork as dramaturg and playwright, Kondo mobilizes critical race studies, affect theory, psychoanalysis, and dramatic writing to trenchantly analyze theater's work of creativity as theory: acting, writing, dramaturgy. Race-making occurs backstage in the creative process and through economic forces, institutional hierarchies, hiring practices, ideologies of artistic transcendence, and aesthetic form. For audiences, the arts produce racial affect--structurally over-determined ways affect can enhance or diminish life. Upending genre through scholarly interpretation, vivid vignettes, and Kondo's original play, Worldmaking journeys from an initial romance with theater that is shattered by encounters with racism, toward what Kondo calls reparative creativity in the work of minoritarian artists Anna Deavere Smith, David Henry Hwang, and the author herself. Worldmaking performs the potential for the arts to remake worlds, from theater worlds to psychic worlds to worldmaking visions for social transformation.
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