Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Performance Studies and Negative Epistemology.- 3. Intercultural Performance and the Apophatics of Appropriation.- 4. An Apophatics of the Archive: In Memoriam Reverend Doctor Florence Li Tim Oi.- 5. The Playwright as Negative Theologian: James Baldwin’s Blues for Mr. Charley.- 6. The Apophatics of the Object: Icon and Community.- 7. Conclusion.- 

About the Author

Claire Maria Chambers teaches modern American and British drama at Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea. Her articles have appeared in Theatre Journal, Performance Research, and Text and Performance Quarterly, among others.

Reviews

“Intellectually stimulating and thoroughly engaging, Claire Maria Chambers’s Performance Studies and Negative Epistemology: Performance Apophatics, is an ambitious interweaving of the two concepts in her title, generating an emerging methodological approach predicated on a practice of ‘critical unknowing’. … this is a rewarding, challenging book, written with intellectual integrity and sagacity. It will surely make an important contribution to the fields of performance studies, performance and philosophy and performance and religion … .” (Patrick Campbell, Performance, Religion and Spirituality, Vol. 1 (02), 2018)