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Staging Monstrous Bodies: Questioning Normative Orders brings together global perspectives from leading and emerging scholars to explore the intersections of monster studies and performances studies.
List of contents
Introduction: Towards a monstrous order
Part One: The Mise-En-Scène of Monstrous Bodies1. The monstrous does not exist: Epistemological and queer-feminist reflections on non-binary figures
2. Breaking the Mold: Building Bodies between Gender Conformity and Monstrosity
3. Dress Eats Woman: Monstrous Costumes in Contemporary Performances
4. From Monster to Freak: A Latin American Genealogy of Corporeal Difference
5. ROUNDTABLE PART ONE: The Mise-En-Scène of Monstrous Bodies - Theses and Motifs
Part Two: De-Montage of the Monstrous6. A Rhineland Werewolf and its Theatrical Legacy
7. LE SOUTENEUR NATUREL DES JUGEURS : Staging the Monstrosity of the Norm
8. Medusa from afar with the sounding body
9. Women Cut Open on Stage: Performing the De-Montage of
Femininity as a Monstrous Practice
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
11. ROUNDTABLE PART TWO: De-Montage of the Monstrous - Theses and Motifs
Part Three: Monstrous Orders12. "There are only monsters here." On the theatrical uncovering of the no-longer-so-hidden in current political contexts
13. Appropriation as Expulsion: Claire Vivianne Sobottke's Performance Velvet as a Feminist Practice of Becoming Unrecognizable
14. Score for: Where Are The Monsters?
15. Monstrous Imagination: Denis Diderot and the Body of the Actor
16. ROUNDTABLE PART THREE: Monstrous Orders -Theses and Motifs
CODA: A Collection of Questions and Thesis to be Continued...
About the author
Michael Mark Chemers is Professor of Dramatic Literature and Chair of the Department of Performance, Play & Design at the University of California Santa Cruz, USA. He is the author or co-editor of several books on monsters in performance, freak shows, and dramaturgy.
Ekaterina Trachsel is a theater scholar and theater maker currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. Her research focuses on contemporary dramaturgies, institutional change, and theatrical stagings of monstrous bodies and orders.
Gerald Siegmund is Professor of Applied Theatre Studies at the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. His research focuses on forms of contemporary theatre, dance, and performance, aesthetics, theories of memory, and the intermediality of theatre in relation to the visual arts.
