A critical history of avant-garde performance and the problematic relationship of text to performance

Almost without exception, studies of the avant-garde take for granted the premise that the influential experimental practices associated with the avant-garde be

"A thoughtful and engaging contribution to the field that will have a sustained and lasting impact on the way feminist performance is defined and understood, as

Pronouncements such as “the avant-garde is dead,” argues James M. Harding, have suggested a unified history or theory of the avant-garde. His book examines

Mama Dada is the first book to examine Gertrude Stein's drama within the history of the theatrical and cinematic avant-gardes. Since the publication of Stein's