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Journal Article
Introduction: \Should we poke it with a stick?\: Approaches to Fantastic Performance
2013
Overview
The fantastic has inspired theatrical performances ranging in history and type from the Abydos Passion Play shown on the Ikhernofret Stone (1868 B.C.E.) to the ritual dances and dithyrambs leading to Greek tragedy (according to Aristotle's Poetics c. 335-323 B.C.E) to Mozart's Magic Flute (1791) and contemporary stagings of Klingon narratives (Gunnels 2012). [...]fantastic performance is not limited to the theatrical stage, extending to genres like musical performance, dance, and public life, such as Dia de los Muertos parades. [...]while the cultural significance of \"fantastic performance\" is evident from the historical entwinement of both genres, it is hard to find a clear definition for it. The articles in this special issue of J FA demonstrate the ways in which the study of the fantastic-which, despite its multivalent entanglements with performance, is still primarily analyzed through literary and cinematic approaches-can benefit from methodologies and viewpoints generated in performance criticism and analysis. Since the \"performative turn\" in the 1990s (Parker and Kosofsky Sedgwick), the appropriation of performative methods of inquiry into fields such as literary and cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, and psychology has led to new insights in complex cultural phenomena such as identity, gender, communication, and creation.
Publisher
International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts,The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts,Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
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