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Performance
"Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of its uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance; the performance of everyday life; and the gendered, sexed, and racialized performance of bodies. This book performs its argument. Images and texts interact to show how performance is at once a creative act, a means to comprehend power, a method of transmitting memory and identity, and a way of understanding the world.
The Archive and the Repertoire
DIVAn interdisciplinary study about the centrality of performance in Latin American culture and politics./div
Disappearing Acts
Taylor uses performance theory to explore how public spectacle both builds and dismantles a sense of national and gender identity. Here, nation is understood as a product of communal "imaginings" that are rehearsed, written and staged - and spectacle is the desiring machine at work in those imaginings. Taylor argue that the founding scenario of Argentineness stages the struggle for national identity as a battle between men - fought on, over, and through the feminine body of the Motherland. She shows how the military's representations of itself as the model of national authenticity established the parameters of the conflict in the 70s and 80s, feminized the enemy, and positioned the public - limiting its ability to respond.
¡Presente!
In ¡Presente! Diana Taylor asks what it means to be physically and politically present in situations where it seems that nothing can be done. As much an act, a word, an attitude, a theoretical intervention, and a performance pedagogy, Taylor maps ¡presente! at work in scenarios ranging from conquest, through colonial enactments and resistance movements, to present moments of capitalist extractivism and forced migration in the Americas. ¡Presente!—present among, with, and to; a walking and talking with others; an ontological and epistemic reflection on presence and subjectivity as participatory and relational, founded on mutual recognition—requires rethinking and unlearning in ways that challenge colonial epistemologies. Showing how knowledge is not something to be harvested but a process of being, knowing, and acting with others, Taylor models a way for scholarship to be present in political struggles.
Diana, Self-Interest, and British National Identity
The public display of grief that accompanied the funeral of the late Princess of Wales drew attention to the many Britons who had found an affinity with Diana. The author of this book argues that Britain underwent a change in values and a shift in national identity during Diana's royal life.
Mary Magdalene
Devastated by circumstances beyond her control, Mary Magdalene struggles to overcome the madness that enslaves her.
101 Princess Diana Facts
Diana, Princess of Wales is one of the most recognisable figures in history. However how much do you really know about the woman who stole a nation's heart? This quick-read eBook gives you all the information you need in easy to digest sections which cover her life from a young child through her ill-fated marriage and subsequent divorce, her relationships, charity work plus much more. Find out everything there is to know about the people's princess whose life was tragically cut short.
Ruth, Mother of Kings
The story of Ruth has captivated Christian believers for centuries, not least of all because she is one of only two women with books of the Bible named after them. Now, Diana Wallis Taylor animates this cherished part of the Old Testament, with its unforgettable cast of characters. Experience Ruth’s elation as a young bride—and her grief at finding herself a widow far before her time. Witness the unspeakable relief of Naomi upon hearing her daughter-in-law promise never to leave her. And celebrate with Boaz when, after years as a widower, he discovers love again, with a woman he first found gleaning in his field. The story of this remarkable woman to whom Jesus Christ traced His lineage comes to life in the pages of this dramatic retelling.
Finger Rings from Ancient Egypt to the Present Day
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Love in Any Language
'Love in Any Language' is the third book in the Nelson and Jeanette trilogy by Diana Taylor who has taken us through the ups and downs of the fictional lives of the much loved Hollywood Stars Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. As every true fan knows they should have married and lived their lives happily ever after but were prevented from doing so by the evil intervention of film mogul Louis B Mayer and Jeanette's mother, Anna MacDonald. Ms Taylor takes us through the latter part of their lives when Nelson takes his lovely wife on a long overdue honeymoon in Europe with some traumatic consequences. Their children make good in their chosen careers and Jeanette and Nelson become doting grandparents. This is just what their devoted followers would have wanted for them.
