03100cam a2200433 4500 2552942017 TxAuBib 20250907120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780472903702 0472903705 B0C5T2TX58 Amazon 4c99c9a7-e615-4e14-8489-8f6ee3410c51 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9878190 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Mihaylova, Stefka. Viewers in Distress [Libby eBook] : Race, Gender, Religion, and Avant-Garde Performance at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. University of Michigan Press, 2023. critical-race theory and performance. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. feminist theory and performance. affect theory and performance. performance and neoliberalism. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. performance and liberalism. avant-garde performance. Forced Entertainment. Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti. Suzan-Lori Parks. Young Jean Lee. Sarah Kane. HTML:<p>Conventional notions of avant-garde art suggest innovative artists rebelling against artistic convention and social propriety, shocking unwilling audiences into new ways of seeing and living. <i>Viewers in Distress</i> tells a different story. Beginning in the tumultuous 1990s, after the fall of the Berlin Wall and in the wake of the Los Angeles riots, rebellious spectators in American and British theaters broke with theater decorum and voiced their radical interpretations of shows that were not meant to be radical. In doing so, audiences tried to understand the complex racial, gender, and religious politics of their times, while insisting that liberal societies fulfill their promise of dignity for all. Stefka Mihaylova argues that such non-conforming viewing amounts to an avant-garde of its own: a bold reimagining of how we live together and tell stories of our lives together, aimed to achieve liberalism's promise. In telling this story, she analyzes the production and reception politics of works by Susan-Lori Parks, Sarah Kane, Forced Entertainment, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, and Young Jean Lee, as well as non-theatrical controversies such as the conflict over Halloween costumes at Yale in 2015. At the core of spectators' discontent, this book suggests, is an effort to figure out how to get along with people different from ourselves in the diverse U.S. and British societies in which we live.</p>. Performing Arts. Nonfiction. Art. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-09-06 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4c99c9a7-e615-4e14-8489-8f6ee3410c51&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4c99c9a7-e615-4e14-8489-8f6ee3410c51&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)