Choreographing Family: Performativity and Spectatorship in Interracial Adoption

This thesis explores interracial adoption through the lens of performance theory. I define family as performative in two senses: the first as active and not inherited, the second as a spectacle. I then posit two original pieces of choreography within these respective frameworks.

    Item Description
    Name(s)
    Thesis advisor: Alejandro, Pedro
    Thesis advisor: Lourie, Susan
    Date
    April 15, 2015
    Extent
    113 pages
    Language
    eng
    Genre
    Physical Form
    electronic
    Discipline
    Rights and Use
    In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted
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    Digital Collection
    PID
    ir:1928