The Sage Handbook of Performance Studies

D. Soyini Madison is professor of Performance Studies and Anthropology, and served as Interim Director of the Program in African Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of Acts of Activism: Human Rights as Radical Performance (2010, Cambridge UP) and the co-editor with Judith Hamera of the SAGE Handbook of Performance Studies (2006, SAGE). Madison lived in West Africa as a Senior Fulbright Scholar and has conducted field research over the past ten years on the performance tactics of local human rights activists in Ghana.

The SAGE Handbook of Performance Studies brings together, in a single volume,  discussions of the major research in performance studies and identifies directions for further investigation. It is the only comprehensive collection on the theories, methods, politics, and practices of performance relating to life and culture. Edited by D. Soyini Madison and Judith Hamera, this Handbook serves artists, scholars, and  students across the disciplines by delineating the scope of the field, the critical and interpretive methods used, and the theoretical and ethical presumptions that guide work in this exciting and growing area.   Key Features: ''''Demonstrates the utility of performance studies for diverse academic audiences by organizing topics into six primary realms of performance inquiryùTheory, History, Literature, Pedagogy, Ethnography, and Politics ''Includes engaging explications of performance theory and methods that help readers grasp their significance and to apply them to a wide range of sites and practices ''Summarizes key theoretical and methodological challenges across the field and provides connections with other bodies of research to advance further work in the discipline ''Provides balanced coverage of issues of enduring interest (such as the relationship between performance and politics; performance and ethnography) as well as those currently flourishing in the field (for example, relationships between performance and pedagogy) ''This Handbook opens a range of paradigms and queries that demonstrates the scope and influence of performance.  It will be a welcome addition to any academic library and is of interest to researchers, scholars, and students in the fields of Communication Studies, Performance Studies, Theatre Arts, and Cultural Studies.

Introduction: Performance Studies at the Intersections - D. Soyini Madison and Judith HameraPerformance and TheoryPart I Introduction: Performance Trouble - Della Pollock1. Stages: Queers, Punks, and the Utopian Performative - Jose Esteban Munoz2. Never, Again - Rebecca Schneider3. Performance and Globalization - Jon McKenzie4. Performance, Performativity, and Cultural Poesis in Practices of Everyday Life - Judith HameraPerformance and HistoryPart II Introduction: Performing History: A Politics of Location - Lisa Merrill5. Genealogies of Performance Studies - Shannon Jackson6. Memory, Remembering, and Histories of Change: A Performance Praxis - Della Pollock7. Minstrelsy and Mental Metempsychosis: Mid-Nineteenth Century American Women¿s Performance Criticism - Gay Gibson Cima8. What to Do When Nuclear War Breaks Out - Tracy C. DavisPerformance and LiteraturePart III Introduction: Performance of and Beyond Literature - Paul Edwards9. Shifting Contexts in Personal Narrative Performance - Kristin M. Langellier and Eric E. Peterson10. The Constructed Self: Strategic and Aesthetic Choices in Autobiographical Performance - Lynn C. Miller and Jacqueline Taylor11. The Strange Case of the Body in the Performance of Literature Classroom: An Enduring Mystery - Bruce Henderson12. On the Bias: From Performance of Literature to Performance Composition - Ruth Laurion Bowman and Michael S. Bowman13. Staging Paradox: The Local Art of Adaptation - Paul EdwardsPerformance and PedagogyPart IV Introduction: Performance and Pedagogy - Bryant Keith Alexander14. Fieldwork in the Performance Studies Classroom: Learning Objectives and the Activist Curriculum - Nathan Stucky15. Ambulant Pedagogy - Mady Schutzman16. Pedagogy on the Move: New Intersections in (Between) the Educative and the Performative - Greg Dimitriadis17. Unlocking the Doors for Incarcerated Women Through Performance and Creative Writing - Kristen Bervig Valentine18. The Politics and Ethics of Performance Pedagogy: Toward a Pedagogy of Hope - Norman K. DenzinPerformance and EthnographyPart V Introduction: Performance and Ethnography, Performing Ethnography, Performance Ethnography - Iya Omi Osun Olomo (Joni L. Jones)19. Dwight Conquergood¿s "Rethinking Ethnography" - D. Soyini Madison20. Rethinking Ethnography: Towards a Critical Cultural Politics - Dwight Conquergood21. Ethnography and the Politics of Adaptation: Leon Forest¿s Divine Days - Derek Goldman22. "She Attempted to Take Over the Choreography of the Sex Act": Dance Ethnography and the Movement Vocabulary of Sex and Labor - Barbara Browning23. Staging Fieldwork/Performing Human Rights - D. Soyini MadisonPerformance and PoliticsPart VI Introduction: Performance and Politics: Themes and Arguments - Judith Hamera and Dwight Conquergood24. The Problem Democracy Is Supposed to Solve: The Politics of Community-Based Performance - Jan Cohen-Cruz25. Black Performance Studies: Genealogies, Politics, Futures - E. Patrick Johnson26. Lethal Theatre: Performance, Punishment, and the Death Penalty - Dwight Conquergood27. Who Is This Ancestor?: Performing Memory in Ghanäs Slave Castle-Dungeons (A Multimedia Performance Meditation) - Sandra L. Richards28. The Polemics and Potential of Theatre Studies and Performance - Jill Dolan