Enacting Others Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith

Name: Enacting Others Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith
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ISBN: 9780822347996

ISBN-10: 0822347997

ISBN-13: 9780822347996

Edition: 2011

Authors: Cherise Smith

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The artists Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, Anna Deavere Smith, and Nikki S. Lee have all crossed racial, ethnic, gender, and class boundaries in works that they have conceived and performed. Cherise Smith analyzes their complex engagements with issues of identity through close readings of a significant performance, or series of performances, by each artist. She examines Piperrs"s public embodiment of the Mythic Being, a working-class black man, during the early 1970s; Antinrs"s full-time existence as the fictitious black ballerina Eleanora Antinova for several weeks in 1981; Deavere Smithrs"s shifting among more than twenty characters of different ages and racial, ethnic, gender, and class…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 3/7/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



ï¿½The Politics of My Positionï¿½


Adrian Piper and Mythic Being



The Other ï¿½Otherï¿½


Eleanor Antin and the Performance of Blackness



ï¿½Other-Orientedï¿½ Performance


Anna Deavere Smith and Twilight: Los Angeles



Nikki S. Lee's Projects and the Repackaging of the Politics of Identity


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index