Unmarked: The Politics of Performance - Paperback

by Peggy Phelan (Author)

Unmarked is a controversial analysis of the fraught relation between political and representational visibility in contemporary culture. Written from and for the Left, Unmarked rethinks the claims of visibility politics through a feminist psychoanalytic examination of specific performance texts - including photography, painting, film, theatre and anti-abortion demonstrations.

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Unmarked is a controversial analysis of the fraught relation between political and representational visibility in contemporary culture. Written from and for the Left, Unmarked rethinks the claims of visibility politics through a feminist psychoanalytic examination of specific performance texts--including photography, painting, film, theatre and anti-abortion-demonstrations.

Author Biography

Peggy Phelan is the Ann O'Day Maples Chair in the Arts, Professor of Theater & Performance Studies and Professor of English at Stanford, USA.