Performing Civil Death
The Medea Project and Theater for Incarcerated Women
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12370541 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nina Billone (Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 260-275 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Text and Performance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1046-2937 • E-ISSN: 1479-5760 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10462930903017224 |
| OpenAlex | W2090665128 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 13 |
This essay examines how the Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women challenges the ideology of the U.S. prison system. I argue that through an ethic and aesthetic of interdependency this community-based ensemble subverts the racialized, classed, and gendered discourse of criminal dependency that serves to produce and to police a growing population of (non)citizens who are caught both within and beyond the boundaries of the nation. Ultimately, I show how the Medea Project advances a vision of democratic citizenship that illuminates both the intersubjective and the infrastructural ties between self and other, subject and world
Aesthetics · Art · Citizenship · Criminology · Democracy · Ideology · Interdependence · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Population · Prison · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Race, History, and American Society
| Citations per year | 0.36 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2021 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |