Performance

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Performance is written by Diana Taylor and published by Duke University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0822375125 (ISBN 10) and 9780822375128 (ISBN 13).

"Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of its uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance; the performance of everyday life; and the gendered, sexed, and racialized performance of bodies. This book performs its argument. Images and texts interact to show how performance is at once a creative act, a means to comprehend power, a method of transmitting memory and identity, and a way of understanding the world.