The social choreography of rape : race, gender, sexuality, and sexual violence in queer performance
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This project is a queer of color critique of Emma Sulkowicz's durational performance art piece Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight) (2014-2015), Hannah Gadsby's standup show Nanette (2018), Wanda Sykes' comedy special Sick and Tired (2006), Lucía Puenzo's film XXY (2007), and Lisset Barcellos' motion picture Both (2005). Via these examples of queer performance and cinema, I argue that rape is a socially choregraphed phenomenon. The social choreography of rape speaks to the role that rape (as an act and an idea) plays in the ways that people are socialized to move (including both bodily movements and movement in and through the world). The concept of rape, particularly myths about rape, compels people to "contort and comport their bodies" (62), in Imani Kai Johnson's words, to produce and uphold a particular social order, an order structured by white cishetero patriarchy. These socialized movements are evident in and reinforced by day-to-day experiences as well as the aesthetic movements and social dynamics within artistic performance. Reference: Johnson, Imani Kai. "Battling in the Bronx: Social Choreography and Outlaw Culture Among Early Hip-Hop Streetdancers in New York City." Dance Research Journal, vol. 50, no. 2, 2018, p. 62-75.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2022; ©2022 |
| Publication date | 2022; 2022 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Nguyen, Thao Phuong |
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| Degree committee member | Duong, Lan P, 1972- |
| Degree committee member | Looser, Diana |
| Degree committee member | Robinson, Aileen |
| Thesis advisor | Duong, Lan P, 1972- |
| Thesis advisor | Looser, Diana |
| Thesis advisor | Robinson, Aileen |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Theater and Performance Studies |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Thao Phuong Nguyen. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Theater and Performance Studies. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2022. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/xy641zt7552 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2022 by Thao Phuong Nguyen
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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