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Enacting Others: Politics of Identity

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Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, Anna Deavere Smith and Nikki S Lee have all crossed racial, ethnic, gender and class boundaries in works they have concieved and performed. Cherise Smith analyses their engagements with issues of identity through close readings of perfromances by each artist.

Artist / Author Cherise Smith
Publisher Duke University Press
ISBN 978-0-8223-4799-6
Reference P2395
Date 2011
Type Publication

Keywords

Adrian Piper Anna Deavere Smith class Eleanor Antin feminism feminist gender identity Nikki S Lee performance performance art race sex sexuality women

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