{"product_id":"not-the-other-avant-garde-james-m-harding-9780472069316","title":"Not the Other Avant-Garde: The Transnational Foundations of Avant-Garde Performance","description":"Almost without exception, studies of the avant-garde take for granted the premise that the influential experimental practices associated with the avant-garde began primarily as a European phenomenon that in turn spread around the world. These ten original essays, especially commissioned for \u003ci\u003eNot the Other Avant-Garde\u003c\/i\u003e, forge a radically new conception of the avant-garde by demonstrating the many ways in which the first- and second-wave avant-gardes were always already a transnational phenomenon, an amalgam of often contradictory performance traditions and practices developed in various cultural locations around the world, including Africa, the Middle East, Mexico, Argentina, India, and Japan. Essays from leading scholars and critics-including Marvin Carlson, Sudipto Chatterjee, John Conteh-Morgan, Peter Eckersall, Harry J. Elam Jr., Joachim Fiebach, David G. Goodman, Jean Graham-Jones, Hannah Higgins, and Adam Versényi-suggest collectively that the very concept of the avant-garde is possible only if conceptualized beyond the limitations of Eurocentric paradigms. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eNot the Other Avant-Garde \u003c\/i\u003eis groundbreaking in both avant-garde studies and performance studies and will be a valuable contribution to the fields of theater studies, modernist studies, art history, literature, and music history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Joins the growing field of critical and transnational theories on the arts. . . its grounding in live performance and its foregrounding of the performative human body presents a new theoretical paradigm that is pathbreaking.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Haiping Yan, University of California, Los Angeles \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames M. Harding\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of English at Mary Washington University. He is author of \u003ci\u003eAdorno and \"A Writing of the Ruins\" Essays on Modern Aesthetics and Anglo-American Literature and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eContours of the Theatrical Avant-Garde: Performance and Textuality\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Rouse\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Theater at the University of California, San Diego. He is author of \u003ci\u003eBrecht and the West German Theatre.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James M. Harding\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472069314\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472069316\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.94d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2006 pg. 290","brand":"James M. Harding","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48064991101183,"sku":"9780472069316","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_67193d2c-29dc-45cc-9fb9-00d8c104dac5.jpg?v=1768672410","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/not-the-other-avant-garde-james-m-harding-9780472069316","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}