Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater

<p>In <em>Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese </em><em>Contemporary </em><em>Theater</em> Peilin Liang develops a theory of bodily transformation.</p><p></p><p>Proposing the concept of transformance a conscious and rigorous process of self-cultivation toward a reconceptualized body Liang shows how theater practitioners of minoritized cultures adopt transformance as a strategy to counteract the embodied practices of ideological and economic hegemony. This book observes key Taiwanese contemporary theater practitioners at work in forging five reconceptualized bodies: the energized the rhythmic the ritualized the joyous and the (re)productive. By focusing on the development of transformance between the years of 2000–2008 a tumultuous political watershed in Taiwan’s history the author succeeds in bridging postcolonialism and interculturalism in her conceptual framework.</p><p></p><p>Ideal for scholars of Asian and postcolonial theater <em>Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese </em><em>Contemporary </em><em>Theater </em>shows how transformance rather than performance calibrates with far greater precision and acuity the state of the body and the culture that it seeks to create. </p>