Staging Monstrous Bodies
Questioning Normative Orders
by Michael Mark Chemers, Ekaterina Trachsel, Gerald Siegmund
1st Edition
Publisher: Routledge
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9781032934501 |
| eText ISBN | 9781040434772 |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Publishing Year | 2025 |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 236 |
Staging Monstrous Bodies: Questioning Normative Orders, 1st Edition, edited by Michael Mark Chemers, Ekaterina Trachsel, and Gerald Siegmund, investigates the analytical intersection of monster studies and performance studies. Published by Routledge, this academic anthology examines how theatrical representations of non-normative bodies challenge established social and political structures. It is prepared for theater scholars, dance scholars, performance students, and theater students seeking rigorous critical approaches to body politics.
The material is organized into three distinct parts: The Mise-En-Scène of Monstrous Bodies, De-Montage of the Monstrous, and Monstrous Orders. Through these broad divisions, the text evaluates dramaturgy, stage representations of violence, gender and sexuality, disability studies, anti-racism, and post-colonial issues.
Each section concludes with a roundtable discussion that gathers new theses, open questions, and intellectual motifs from the contributors. This theoretical format supports advanced coursework and academic research in performance theory, offering a structured framework for examining corporeal difference.
Table of Contents
Chapter Introduction: Towards a monstrous order
Chapter Part One: The Mise-En-Scène of Monstrous Bodies
Chapter 1: The Monstrous Does Not Exist: Epistemological and Queer-Feminist Reflections on Non-Binary Figures
Chapter 2: Breaking the Mold: Building Bodies between Gender Conformity and Monstrosity
Chapter 3: Dress Eats Woman: Monstrous Costumes in Contemporary Performances
Chapter 4: From Monster to Freak: A Latin American Genealogy of Corporeal Difference
Chapter 5: ROUNDTABLE PART ONE: The Mise-En-Scène of Monstrous Bodies – Theses and Motifs
Chapter Part Two: De-Montage of the Monstrous
Chapter 6: A Rhineland Werewolf and Its Theatrical Legacy
Chapter 7: LE SOUTENEUR NATUREL DES JUGEURS: Staging the Monstrosity of the Norm
Chapter 8: Medusa from Afar with the Sounding Body
Chapter 9: Women Cut Open on Stage: Performing the De-Montage of Femininity as a Monstrous Practice
Chapter 10: To Open the Shut Eyes of the Corpse: Performing Resurrections in Cadela Força – The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella by Carolina Bianchi y Cara de Cavalo
Chapter 11: ROUNDTABLE PART TWO: De-Montage of the Monstrous – Theses and Motifs
Chapter Part Three: Monstrous Orders
Chapter 12: “There are only monsters here.” On the theatrical uncovering of the no-longer-so-hidden in current political contexts
Chapter 13: Appropriation as Expulsion: Claire Vivianne Sobottke’s Performance Velvet as a Feminist Practice of Becoming Unrecognizable
Chapter 14: Score for: Where Are The Monsters?
Chapter 15: Monstrous Imagination: Denis Diderot and the Body of the Actor
Chapter 16: ROUNDTABLE PART THREE: Monstrous Orders –Theses and Motifs
Chapter CODA: A Collection of Questions and Thesis to be Continued…
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