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Notes on Hope

Revisiting Unmarked 30 Years Later

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2024

Peggy Phelan
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Abstract

Writers and readers cocreate books. Over time, certain readings, even if they are misreadings, come to summarize the book so thoroughly that the book gets transformed into a chapter, a paragraph, a sentence. While chapter 7 of Unmarked, “The Ontology of Performance,” is the most frequently cited, the Afterword’s meditation on misunderstanding may be the most hopeful for future scholarship.

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TDR , Volume 68 , Issue 2 , June 2024 , pp. 7 - 10
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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References

Phelan, Peggy. 1993. Unmarked: The Politics of Performance. Routledge.Google Scholar
Phelan, Peggy. 1997. Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories. Routledge. Google Scholar