Gobsmacked: Getting Speechless in Performance

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Notes

Peggy Phelan, Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories (London and New York: Routledge, 1997), p. 5.

For an elaboration of her theory of the political value of performance and disappearance, see Peggy Phelan, Unmarked: The Politics of Performance (Abingdon: Routledge, 1993), pp. 146–66.

Gobsmacked: Getting Speechless in Performance took place at Queen Mary, University of London on 20 November 2010.

Cited in Margaret Kelleher, The Feminization of Famine: Expressions of the Inexpressible? (Cork: Cork University Press, 1997), p. 17.

Cited in ibid., p. 18.

Kathleen M. Gough, ‘Girls Interrupted: Gendered Spectres, Atlantic Drag’, Performance Research, 13 (Spring 2008), 115–26 (p. 117).

José Esteban Muñoz, Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), p. 97.

Michel Foucault, The Order of Things (London and NewYork: Routledge, 2001); The Archaeology of Knowledge (London and NewYork: Routledge, 2002).

Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge, Vol. 1: The Will to Knowledge, trans. Robert Hurley (London: Penguin, 1998), p. 93.