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Description:: Black women performers have made, and continue to make, contributions to the U.S.-avant-garde performance canon and Black performance traditions that go largely unaccounted for in academic studies. Research has shown that across temporalities, Black women performers have mobilized experimental avant-garde aesthetics to disrupt and refuse essentialized notions of Blackness in...
Keyword:: Avant-garde performance, Performance studies, and Black feminism
Subject:: African American studies, Gender studies, and Performing arts
Creator:: Webb, Chaunesti Nichelle
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_903678 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16104

Description:: “Entertaining Strangers” reveals how theories and practices of hospitality shaped and were shaped by the early modern print and theater industries. Whereas earlier studies of hospitality and literature have focused on aristocratic patronage, in this dissertation I reveal the vital importance of commercial hospitality as a framework for ethical and...
Keyword:: Travel writing, Hospitality, Performance studies, Print culture, Poetry, and Paratexts
Subject:: Philosophy, Theater history, and English literature
Creator:: Blankenau, Katherine Elizabeth
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 04/15/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15447 and etdadmin_upload_791923

Description:: This dissertation elucidates the contemporary dance studio and stage in twenty-first century Senegal as privileged sites of knowledge production about gender and sexuality. Entangled within local and global dance lineages, funding structures, and modes of circulation, contemporary choreographers perform their bodies in ways that challenge predominant narratives, both those imagined...
Keyword:: Sexuality, Gender, Contemporary dance, Performance studies, Senegal, and Germaine Acogny
Subject:: Gender studies, Dance, and African studies
Creator:: Swanson, Amy Elizabeth
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_662490 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14644

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