This book discusses the centrality of identity politics to theatre and performance studies. The essays pose questions about identity and the subjectivity, relationality, and the politics of aesthetics, visiting visual arts practice, digital culture, music, public events, experimental theatre, and performance to investigate questions about representation, metaphysics, and politics.
"Imparting momentum to the dialogue between theory and practice, the volume triangulates performance, subject, and neoliberalism to repoliticize the reliance on 'identity politics' in theatre and performance studies...Performance, Identity, and the Neo-Political Subject scrutinizes an interpretive crisis in theatre and performance studies, and provides a remarkable rethinking of the modalities of subjection engaged by performance." --Hana Worthen, Barnard College, Contemporary Theatre Review
