Liminalities will publish reviews of any books relevant to performance studies, broadly construed. If you are interested in reviewing one of the books listed below, please send a note of inquiry to the book review editor, Chris McRae: cjmcrae@usf.edu
If interested in reviewing a title not listed below, send a note of proposal to the editor. Publishers should contact cjmcrae@usf.edu or send materials to Chris McRae, book review editor, Liminalities, Department of Communication, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, CIS 1040, Tampa, FL 33620-7800.
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recent titles received for review: (updated February 2024) Race and Role by Rena M. Heinrich The Spirit of the City: Marshall Fredericks Sculptures in Detroit by Janna Jones Falling, Floating, Flickering: Disability and Differential Movement in African Diasporic Performance by Hershini Bhana Young Real-ish: Audiences, Feeling, and the Production of Realness in Contemporary Performance by Kelsey Jacobson Language and Power on the Rhetorical Stage by Fiona Harris Ramsby House Concert by Igor Levit and Florian Zinnecker Congo's Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa by Lesley Nicole Braun Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds by Arseli Dokumaci The Principles of Comedy Improv: Truths, Tales, and How to Improvise by Tom Blank Disappearing Rooms: The Hidden Theaters of Immigration Law by Michelle Castañeda Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art by Joanna Page After the Miners' Strike: A39 and Cornish Political Theatre versus Thatcher's Britain: Volume 1, by Paul Farmer, with preface by Rebecca Hillman and contributions by Mark Kilburn Shépa: The Tibetan Oral Tradition in Choné, by Bendi Tso, Marnyi Gyatso, Naljor Tsering, Mark Turin, and Members of the Choné Tibetan Community. The Hidden Powers of Ritual: The Journey of a Lifetime, by Bradd Shore Canadian Performance Documents and Debates, edited by Anthony J. Vickery, Glen F. Nichols and Allana C. Lindgren Narrative and Grief: Autoethnographies of Loss, edited by Deleasa Randall-Griffiths and Patricia English-Schneider Estado Vegetal: Performance and Plant-Thinking, edited by Giovanni Aloi Conversations with Terrence McNally, edited by Raymond-Jean Frontain American Scenic Design and Freelance Professionalism by David Bisaha Politics as Public Art: The Aesthetics of Political Organizing and Social Movements Edited By Martin Zebracki and Z. Zane McNeill Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin by Joseph Plaster The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation by Lisa Biggs Live Coding: A User's Manual by Alan F. Blackwell, Emma Cocker, Geoff Cox, Alex McLean and Thor Magnusson Dancer's Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India by Rumya Sree Putcha Mulla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster, 1906-1911 by Janet & Kamran Afary Canadian Performance Documents and Debates, edited by Anthony J. Vickery, Glen F. Nichols and Allana C. Lindgren Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster, 1906-1911 by Janet & Kamran Afary Art and Tradition in a Time of Uprisings by Gabriel Levine Communication Research on Expressive Arts and Narrative as Forms of Healing Edited by Kamran Afary and Alice Marianne Fritz Standby: An Approach to Theatrical Design by Joshua Langman Staging Black Fugitivity by Stacie Selmon McCormick A Sourcebook of Performance Labor by Joey Orr THE CRACKED ART WORLD: Conflict, Austerity, and Community Arts in Northern Ireland by Kayla Rush. Turning Archival: The Life of the Historical in Queer Studies by Daniel Marshall and Zeb Tortorici Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability by Vivian L. Huang Crisis Vision: Race and the Cultural Production of Surveillance" by Torin Monahan Classic and Contemporary Horror Theatre by Richard J. Hand and Micheal Wilson The Art of Verbal Warfare by Rik Smits Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe by Julie Stone Peters A History of Butô (Oxford UP, 2022) by Bruce Baird K-pop Dance: Fandoming Yourself on Social Media (New York, NY: Routledge, 2022) by Chuyun Oh Goodnight the pleasure was ours by David Grubbs (Duke University Press, May 2022) The Florida Room by Alexandra T. Vazquez (March 2022) ECO SOMA: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters by Petra Kuppers The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought by Roger A. Sneed. Anime's Identity: Performativity and Form beyond Japan by Stevie Suan Carrying All before Her: Celebrity Pregnancy and the London Stage, 1689-1800 by Chelsea Phillips Love and Abolition: The Social Life of Black Queer Performance by Alison Rose Reed Wandering Games by Melissa Kagen Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History, by Katrina M. Phillips Film, Cinema, Genre: The Steve Neale Reader, edited by Frank Krutnik and Richard Maltby Social Partner Dance, by David Kaminsky: Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds, by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger. Liquor Store Theatre, by Maya Stovall Writing in Space: 1973-2019, by Lorraine O′Grady, edited by Aruna D′Souza Blackness in Morrocco: Gnawa Identity through Music and Visual Culture, by Cynthia J. Becker Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry, edited by Mollie Godfrey The Cry of the Senses: Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics, by Ren Ellis Neyra Making the Black Jacobins, by Rachel Douglas Hot Feet and Social Change: African Dance and Diaspora Communities, edited by Kariamu Welsh, Esailama G. A. Diouf, and Yvonne Daniel A Guru's Journey: Pandit Chitresh Das and Indian Classical Dance in Diaspora, by Sarah Morelli Performance/Media/Art/Culture: Selected Essays 1983-2018, by Jacki Apple, edited by Marina LaPalma Hungry Translations: Relearning the World through Radical Vulnerability, by Richa Nagar Radical Virtuosity: Ana Mendieta and the Black Atlantic, by Genevieve Hyacinthe American Public Memory and the Holocaust: Performing Gender, Shifting Orientations, by Lisa A. Costello Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement, by Jian Neo Chen Globalized Nostalgia: Tourism, Heritage, and the Politics of Place, by Christina M. Ceisel Showing Off, Showing Up: Studies of Hype, Heightened Performance, and Cultural Power, edited by Laurie Frederick, Kim Marra, & Catherine Schuler Adaptation Online: Creating Memes, Sweding Movies, and Other Digital Performances, by Lyndsay Michalik Gratch Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa, edited by Jay Pather and Catherine Boulle The Daddies, by Kimberly Dark Shakesepeare and Realism: On the Politics of Style, edited by Peter Lichtenfels and Josy Miller Digital Sound Studies, edited by Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, and Whitney Trettien Sound Objects, edited by James A. Steintrager and Rey Chow World-Making: Race, Performance and the Work of Creativity, by Dorinne Kondo Back to the Dance Itself: Phenomenologies of the Body in Performance, edited with Essays by Sondra Fraleigh Now that the Audience is Assembled, by David Grubbs Law and Performance edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey The Paradox of Authenticity: Folklore Performance in Post-Communist Slovakia by Joseph Grim Feinberg Strange Footing: Poetic Form and Dance in the Late Middle Ages by Seeta Chaganti 100 Years of Futurism: Aesthetics, Politics, & Performance edited by John London Abject Performances: Aesthetic Strategies in Latino Cultural Production by Leticia Alverado YoungGiftedandFat: An Autoethnography of Size, Sexuality, and Privilege by Sharrell D. Luckett Just One of the Boys: Female-to-male cross-dressing on the American Variety Stage by Gillian M. Rodger Appreticeship Pilgrimage: Developing Expertise through Travel and Training by Lauren Miller Griffith and Jonathan S. Marion Collective Situations: Readings in Contemporary Latin American Art, 1995-2010 edited by Bill Kelley Jr. and Grant H. Kester Ezili�s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders by Omise�eke Natasha Tinsley Creating Performances for Teaching and Learning: A Practice Session for Pedagogy by Chris McRae and Aubrey Huber Defiant Indigeneity: The Politics of Hawaiian Performance by Stephanie Nohelani Teves Neo-Passing: Performing Identity after Jim Crow Edited by Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young Kira O�Reilly Untitled (Bodies) edited by Harriet Curtis and Martin Hargreaves Living Cargo: How Black Britain Performs its Past by Steven Blevins Spiders of the Market: Ghanaian Trickster Performance in a Web of Neoliberalism by David Afriyie Donkor The Minor Gesture by Erin Manning Blacktino Queer Performance edited by E. Patrick Johnson and Ramon H. Rivera-Servera What She Go Do: Women in Afro-Trinidadian Music by Hope Munro Embodied Inquiry: Writing, Living and Being through the Body by Celeste Snowber Masculinity/Femininity [documentary film + supplements], produced by Meredith Heil and Russell Sheaffer Sensing Sound: Singing & Listening as Vibrational Practice by Nina Sun Eidsheim Stages of Struggle and Celebration: A Production History of Black Theatre in Texas by Sandra M. Mayo and Elvin Holt The Performance Style of Jascha Heifetz (by Dario Sarlo) Becoming Past: History in Contemporary Art (by Jane Blocker) Disabled Theater (edited by Sandra Umathum and Benjamin Wihstutz) Performance Art in Ireland: A History (edited by �ine Phillips) Steven Dietz: Four Plays for Family Audiences (ed. by Coleman A. Jennings) Under Bright Ligths: Gay Manila and the Global Scene (by Bobby Benedicto) The Queen�s Dumbshows: John Lydgate and the Making of Early Theater (Claire Sponsler | U of Pennsylvania P) Acting Up and Getting Down: Plays by African American Texans (Sandra M. Mayo & Elvin Holt, Eds. | U of Texas P) Throwing the Body into the Fight: A Portrait of Raimund Hoghe (ed. Mary Kate Connolly | intellect) Theatre & Performance in Small Nations (ed. Steve Blandford | Intellect) |
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