Liontaming in America

by Elizabeth Willis

"To disrupt the relationship of predator and prey, to reshape one's relation to power, is to renovate the lived and living world," Elizabeth Willis writes in her visionary work that delves deep into the ancient enchantments and disciplinary displays of the circus. Liontaming in America investigates the utopian aspirations fleetingly enacted in the polyamorous life of a nineteenth-century Mormon community, interweaving archival and personal threads...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811238636
• ISBN13: 9780811238632
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 272 Pages