Performance and Cultural Politics is a groundbreaking collection of essays which explore the historical and cultural territories of performance, written by the foremost scholars in the field. The essays, exploring performance art, theatre, music and dance, range from Oscar Wilde to Eric Clapton; from the Rose Theatre to U.S. Holocaust museums. The topic includes: * Sex Play: Stereotype, Pose and Dildo * Grave Performances: The Cultural Politics of Memory * Genealogies: Critical Performances * Identity Politics: Passing, Carnival and the Law In the concluding section, `Performer's Performance', performance artist Robbie McCauley offers the practitioner's perspective on performance studies. Interdisciplinary, thought-provoking and rich in new ideas, Performance and Cultural Politics is a landmark in the emerging field of performance studies.

Elin Diamond

1: Introduction; I: Re-Sexing Culture; 2: Acting out Orientalism; 3: Posing the Question; 4: Doing it Anyway; II: Grave Performances; 5: Playing Dead in Stone, or, When is a Rose not a Rose? 1; 6: Spectacles of Suffering; 7: Festivities and Jubilations on the Graves of the Dead; III: Moving/Seeing; 8: Pygmalion's No-Body and The Body of Dance; 9: After US The Savage Goddess; 10: Flat-Out Vision; 11: Liveness; IV: Identity Politics; 12: Kinship, Intelligence, and Memory As Improvisation; 13: Forms of Appearance of Value; V: Performer/Performance; 14: Thoughts On My Career, The Other Weapon, and Other Projects