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- Title
Riding, Scarring, Knowing: A Queerly Embodied Performance Historiography.
- Authors
Marra, Kim
- Abstract
This essay captures the author's emergent thinking about how her exploration of autobiographical performance with a seventy-five-minute solo piece, Horseback Views, staged at three academic conferences and a professional venue over the last three years, functions as a queer mode of historiographic research into nineteenth-century women's performance of equestrianism. Heretofore exclusively a scholar, she discusses the queerness of embodied performance that puts her in a moving--at times vigorously moving--relationship to "an archive of feelings'--the record in print, pictures, heirloom riding equipment, and her own flesh and blood--of equine impact on women's lives. That physical movement connects her corporeally and affectively to the material and the moment, bringing the historically consequential and queering movements of horses into the present for public and scholarly attention.
- Subjects
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL drama; EQUESTRIANISM; WOMEN in horse sports; QUEER theory; HUMAN sexuality; HISTORIOGRAPHY
- Publication
Theatre Journal, 2012, Vol 64, Issue 4, p489
- ISSN
0192-2882
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/tj.2012.a494442