Kinship and Performance in the Black and Green Atlantic

Kathleen M. Gough is Associate Professor of Theatre Studies and resident dramaturge in the Department of Theatre at the University of Vermont, USA.

• List of FiguresChapter One - Introduction: Kinship, Performance, and the Historical Real Chapter Two - Orientation: Slavery meets the Famine Chapter Three - The Image: Joan of Arc, Jim Crow, and the "Irish Question" Chapter Four - Between the Words: Syncopated Rhythm and Tender Mapping Chapter Five - Political Action: Kinship, Civil Rights, and Analog(ous) Troubles Chapter Six - What Fresh Ghost Is This? Epilogue Notes BibliographyIndex

Winner of the 2014 Errol Hill Award for outstanding scholarship in African American theater"Startlingly original [...] This invigorating critical and creative project is a challenge to scholars and artists to acknowledge and address the implications for ethical practice of gendered instabilities in archives, performance, and their multiplying interactions." - New Theatre Quarterly "A novel addition to a field that demands novelty [...] Gough’ s insistence that we need to think differently about the actors of this history is necessarily coupled with a historical approach that can enable that type of reading. Kinship and Performance in the Black and Green Atlantic is "a dramaturgy of the figure of woman in movement" that allows us to read "the figure of woman" as a social actor across time." – Theatre Survey "Gough’s ambitious and evocative book offers new analytical engagements with the performance of gender, race, and identity among key Irish and African American figures from the 1850s through the present day [...] Serves as a reminder that archives, researchers, and history are in constant motion, and that awareness of changing relationships among them leads to new insights into past and present." – Modern Drama "Gough’s sophisticated study relies on a range of theoretical ideas, reworking, for example, Richard Schechner’s "restoration of behavior" in order to rethink both the telos that Schechner implies, and his primary focus on the social actor, with Gough emphasizing instead that restoration of behavior "moves backward and forward in the archive." - TDR: The Drama Review