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(De)Facing the Animals: Zooësis and Performance
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 51, Number 1 (T 193), Spring 2007
- pp. 8-20
- Article
- Additional Information
The face-to-face encounter between human and animal, a key trope in the discourse of contemporary Animal Studies as well as of zooësis—the broad field of cultural animal representations—offers a way to chart the effect of the animal presence on traditional performance genres, including tragedy.