Liminalities will publish reviews of any books relevant to performance studies, broadly construed. If you are interested in reviewing one of the books listed below, please send a note of inquiry to the book review editor, Chris McRae: cjmcrae@usf.edu

If interested in reviewing a title not listed below, send a note of proposal to the editor. Publishers should contact cjmcrae@usf.edu or send materials to Chris McRae, book review editor, Liminalities, Department of Communication, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, CIS 1040, Tampa, FL 33620-7800.



recent titles received for review:
(updated February 2024)

Race and Role by Rena M. Heinrich

The Spirit of the City: Marshall Fredericks Sculptures in Detroit by Janna Jones

Falling, Floating, Flickering: Disability and Differential Movement in African Diasporic Performance by Hershini Bhana Young

Real-ish: Audiences, Feeling, and the Production of Realness in Contemporary Performance by Kelsey Jacobson

Language and Power on the Rhetorical Stage by Fiona Harris Ramsby

House Concert by Igor Levit and Florian Zinnecker

Congo's Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa by Lesley Nicole Braun

Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds by Arseli Dokumaci

The Principles of Comedy Improv: Truths, Tales, and How to Improvise by Tom Blank

Disappearing Rooms: The Hidden Theaters of Immigration Law by Michelle Castañeda

Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art by Joanna Page

After the Miners' Strike: A39 and Cornish Political Theatre versus Thatcher's Britain: Volume 1, by Paul Farmer, with preface by Rebecca Hillman and contributions by Mark Kilburn

Shépa: The Tibetan Oral Tradition in Choné, by Bendi Tso, Marnyi Gyatso, Naljor Tsering, Mark Turin, and Members of the Choné Tibetan Community.

The Hidden Powers of Ritual: The Journey of a Lifetime, by Bradd Shore

Canadian Performance Documents and Debates, edited by Anthony J. Vickery, Glen F. Nichols and Allana C. Lindgren

Narrative and Grief: Autoethnographies of Loss, edited by Deleasa Randall-Griffiths and Patricia English-Schneider

Estado Vegetal: Performance and Plant-Thinking, edited by Giovanni Aloi

Conversations with Terrence McNally, edited by Raymond-Jean Frontain

American Scenic Design and Freelance Professionalism by David Bisaha

Politics as Public Art: The Aesthetics of Political Organizing and Social Movements Edited By Martin Zebracki and Z. Zane McNeill

Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin by Joseph Plaster

The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation by Lisa Biggs

Live Coding: A User's Manual by Alan F. Blackwell, Emma Cocker, Geoff Cox, Alex McLean and Thor Magnusson

Dancer's Voice: Performance and Womanhood in Transnational India by Rumya Sree Putcha

Mulla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster, 1906-1911 by Janet & Kamran Afary

Canadian Performance Documents and Debates, edited by Anthony J. Vickery, Glen F. Nichols and Allana C. Lindgren

Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster, 1906-1911 by Janet & Kamran Afary

Art and Tradition in a Time of Uprisings by Gabriel Levine

Communication Research on Expressive Arts and Narrative as Forms of Healing Edited by Kamran Afary and Alice Marianne Fritz

Standby: An Approach to Theatrical Design by Joshua Langman

Staging Black Fugitivity by Stacie Selmon McCormick

A Sourcebook of Performance Labor by Joey Orr

THE CRACKED ART WORLD: Conflict, Austerity, and Community Arts in Northern Ireland by Kayla Rush.

Turning Archival: The Life of the Historical in Queer Studies by Daniel Marshall and Zeb Tortorici

Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability by Vivian L. Huang

Crisis Vision: Race and the Cultural Production of Surveillance" by Torin Monahan

Classic and Contemporary Horror Theatre by Richard J. Hand and Micheal Wilson

The Art of Verbal Warfare by Rik Smits

Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe by Julie Stone Peters

A History of Butô (Oxford UP, 2022) by Bruce Baird

K-pop Dance: Fandoming Yourself on Social Media (New York, NY: Routledge, 2022) by Chuyun Oh

Goodnight the pleasure was ours by David Grubbs (Duke University Press, May 2022)

The Florida Room by Alexandra T. Vazquez (March 2022)

ECO SOMA: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters by Petra Kuppers

The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought by Roger A. Sneed.

Anime's Identity: Performativity and Form beyond Japan by Stevie Suan

Carrying All before Her: Celebrity Pregnancy and the London Stage, 1689-1800 by Chelsea Phillips

Love and Abolition: The Social Life of Black Queer Performance by Alison Rose Reed

Wandering Games by Melissa Kagen

Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History, by Katrina M. Phillips

Film, Cinema, Genre: The Steve Neale Reader, edited by Frank Krutnik and Richard Maltby

Social Partner Dance, by David Kaminsky:

Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds, by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger.

Liquor Store Theatre, by Maya Stovall

Writing in Space: 1973-2019, by Lorraine O′Grady, edited by Aruna D′Souza

Blackness in Morrocco: Gnawa Identity through Music and Visual Culture, by Cynthia J. Becker

Conversations with Lorraine Hansberry, edited by Mollie Godfrey

The Cry of the Senses: Listening to Latinx and Caribbean Poetics, by Ren Ellis Neyra

Making the Black Jacobins, by Rachel Douglas

Hot Feet and Social Change: African Dance and Diaspora Communities, edited by Kariamu Welsh, Esailama G. A. Diouf, and Yvonne Daniel

A Guru's Journey: Pandit Chitresh Das and Indian Classical Dance in Diaspora, by Sarah Morelli

Performance/Media/Art/Culture: Selected Essays 1983-2018, by Jacki Apple, edited by Marina LaPalma

Hungry Translations: Relearning the World through Radical Vulnerability, by Richa Nagar

Radical Virtuosity: Ana Mendieta and the Black Atlantic, by Genevieve Hyacinthe

American Public Memory and the Holocaust: Performing Gender, Shifting Orientations, by Lisa A. Costello

Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement, by Jian Neo Chen

Globalized Nostalgia: Tourism, Heritage, and the Politics of Place, by Christina M. Ceisel

Showing Off, Showing Up: Studies of Hype, Heightened Performance, and Cultural Power, edited by Laurie Frederick, Kim Marra, & Catherine Schuler

Adaptation Online: Creating Memes, Sweding Movies, and Other Digital Performances, by Lyndsay Michalik Gratch

Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa, edited by Jay Pather and Catherine Boulle

The Daddies, by Kimberly Dark

Shakesepeare and Realism: On the Politics of Style, edited by Peter Lichtenfels and Josy Miller

Digital Sound Studies, edited by Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, and Whitney Trettien

Sound Objects, edited by James A. Steintrager and Rey Chow

World-Making: Race, Performance and the Work of Creativity, by Dorinne Kondo

Back to the Dance Itself: Phenomenologies of the Body in Performance, edited with Essays by Sondra Fraleigh

Now that the Audience is Assembled, by David Grubbs

Law and Performance edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey

The Paradox of Authenticity: Folklore Performance in Post-Communist Slovakia by Joseph Grim Feinberg

Strange Footing: Poetic Form and Dance in the Late Middle Ages by Seeta Chaganti

100 Years of Futurism: Aesthetics, Politics, & Performance edited by John London

Abject Performances: Aesthetic Strategies in Latino Cultural Production by Leticia Alverado

YoungGiftedandFat: An Autoethnography of Size, Sexuality, and Privilege by Sharrell D. Luckett

Just One of the Boys: Female-to-male cross-dressing on the American Variety Stage by Gillian M. Rodger

Appreticeship Pilgrimage: Developing Expertise through Travel and Training by Lauren Miller Griffith and Jonathan S. Marion

Collective Situations: Readings in Contemporary Latin American Art, 1995-2010 edited by Bill Kelley Jr. and Grant H. Kester

Ezili�s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders by Omise�eke Natasha Tinsley

Creating Performances for Teaching and Learning: A Practice Session for Pedagogy by Chris McRae and Aubrey Huber

Defiant Indigeneity: The Politics of Hawaiian Performance by Stephanie Nohelani Teves

Neo-Passing: Performing Identity after Jim Crow Edited by Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young

Kira O�Reilly Untitled (Bodies) edited by Harriet Curtis and Martin Hargreaves

Living Cargo: How Black Britain Performs its Past by Steven Blevins

Spiders of the Market: Ghanaian Trickster Performance in a Web of Neoliberalism by David Afriyie Donkor

The Minor Gesture by Erin Manning

Blacktino Queer Performance edited by E. Patrick Johnson and Ramon H. Rivera-Servera

What She Go Do: Women in Afro-Trinidadian Music by Hope Munro

Embodied Inquiry: Writing, Living and Being through the Body by Celeste Snowber

Masculinity/Femininity [documentary film + supplements], produced by Meredith Heil and Russell Sheaffer

Sensing Sound: Singing & Listening as Vibrational Practice by Nina Sun Eidsheim

Stages of Struggle and Celebration: A Production History of Black Theatre in Texas by Sandra M. Mayo and Elvin Holt

The Performance Style of Jascha Heifetz (by Dario Sarlo)

Becoming Past: History in Contemporary Art (by Jane Blocker)

Disabled Theater (edited by Sandra Umathum and Benjamin Wihstutz)

Performance Art in Ireland: A History (edited by �ine Phillips)

Steven Dietz: Four Plays for Family Audiences (ed. by Coleman A. Jennings)

Under Bright Ligths: Gay Manila and the Global Scene (by Bobby Benedicto)

The Queen�s Dumbshows: John Lydgate and the Making of Early Theater (Claire Sponsler | U of Pennsylvania P)

Acting Up and Getting Down: Plays by African American Texans (Sandra M. Mayo & Elvin Holt, Eds. | U of Texas P)

Throwing the Body into the Fight: A Portrait of Raimund Hoghe (ed. Mary Kate Connolly | intellect)

Theatre & Performance in Small Nations (ed. Steve Blandford | Intellect)





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