Not the Other Avant-Garde

Not the Other Avant-Garde The Transnational Foundations of Avant-Garde Performance

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Publisher's Synopsis

The essays in this collection offer a radical reappraisal of the avant-garde by placing it within a much broader global context. The book questions the very assumptions that underlie the generally accepted chronology and theory of the avant-garde, and offer a bold new performance-based theory that moves beyond Eurocentric presup-positions. In ten essays especially commissioned for this volume, leading scholars and critics including Marvin Carlson, Supito Chatterjee, John Conteh-Morgan, Harry J. Elam, Jr., Joachim Fiebach, David G. Goodman, Jean Graham-Jones, Hanna Higgins, and Adam Versenyi discuss avant-garde performances in Africa, the Middle East, Mexico, Argentina, India, and Japan.

Book information

ISBN: 9780472069316
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Imprint: The University of Michigan Press
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 490g
Height: 156mm
Width: 229mm
Spine width: 24mm