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Author Smith, Cherise, 1969-

Title Enacting others : politics of identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith / Cherise Smith.

Publication Info. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  700.92 S644E    Check Shelf
Description xi, 307 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-291) and index.
Contents "The politics of my position" : Adrian Piper and mythic being -- The other "other" : Eleanor Antin and the performance of Blackness -- "Other-oriented" performance : Anna Deavere Smith and Twilight : Los Angeles -- Nikki S. Lee's projects and the repackaging of the politics of identity.
Summary 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 -- from cover.
Subject Performance art -- Political aspects.
Performance art -- Social aspects.
Ethnicity in art.
Gender identity in art.
ISBN 9780822347828 (cloth ;) (alk. paper)
0822347822 (cloth ;) (alk. paper)
9780822347996 (paperback;) (alk. paper)
0822347997 (paperback;) (alk. paper)
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