Powerful Bodies: Performance in French Cultural Studies

by Peter Collier and Victoria Best

In the first major overview of the latest and most challenging development in French cultural studies, this volume approaches the field of performance theory in its diverse applications. At the end of the twentieth century performance has become a highly significant theoretical framework that offers a new perspective on identity formation, the relationship of self and other, and the transformational properties of language. Inspired by the ideas of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3906762564
• ISBN13: 9783906762562
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
• Length: 220 Pages