Acts of Transgression

Acts of Transgression
Author: Jay Pather
Publisher: Wits University Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2019-02-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1776142799

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Fifteen writers explore the experimental, interdisciplinary and radically transgressive field of contemporary live art in South Africa, focusing on a wide range of perspectives, personalities and theoretical concerns. Contemporary South African society is chronologically ‘post’ apartheid, but it continues to grapple with material redress, land redistribution and systemic racism. Acts of Transgression represents the complexity of this moment in the rich potential of a performative art form that transcends disciplinary boundaries and aesthetic conventions. The contributors, who are all significantly involved in the discipline of performance art, probe its intersection with crisis and socio-political turbulence, shifting notions of identity and belonging, embodied trauma and loss. Narratives of the past and visions for the future are interrogated through memory and the archive, thus destabilising entrenched colonial systems. Collectively analysing the work of more than 25 contemporary South African artists, including Athi-Patra Ruga, Mohau Modisakeng, Steven Cohen, Dean Hutton, Mikhael Subotzsky, Tracey Rose and Donna Kukama, among others, the analysis is accompanied by a visual record of more than 50 photographs. For those working in the fields of theatre, performance studies and art, this is a must-have collection of critical essays on a burgeoning and exciting field of contemporary South African research.

Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil

Transgression and the Aesthetics of Evil
Author: Taran Kang
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2021-12-15
Genre: Aesthetics, European
ISBN: 1487529074

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Genius and the Spirit of Transgression -- Symbols of the Morally Bad -- Evil and the Sublime -- Wicked Spectators.

Lewd and Notorious

Lewd and Notorious
Author: Katharine Kittredge
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2009-12-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0472024418

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Accounts of women's transgressive behavior in eighteenth-century literature and social documents have much to teach us about constructions of femininity during the period often identified as having formed our society's gender norms. Lewd and Notorious explores the eighteenth century's shadows, inhabited by marginal women of many kinds and degrees of contrariness. The reader meets Laetitia Pilkington, whose sexual indiscretions caused her to fall from social and literary grace to become an articulate memoirist of personal scandal, and Elizabeth Brownrigg, who tortured and starved her young servants, propelling herself to an infamy comparable to Susan Smith's or Myra Hindley's. More awful women wait between these covers to teach us about society's reception (and construction) of their debauchery and dangerousness. The authors draw upon a rich range of contemporary texts to illuminate the lives of these women. Astute analysis of literary, legal, evangelical, epistolary, and political documents provides an understanding of 1700s womanhood. From lusty old maids to murderous mistresses, the characters who exemplify this period's vision of women on the edge are essential acquaintances for anyone wishing to understand the development and ramifications of conceptions of femininity.

Transgressive Devotion

Transgressive Devotion
Author: Natalie Wigg-Stevenson
Publisher: SCM Press
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2021-02-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 033405947X

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Academic theology is in need of a new genre. In "Transgressive Devotion" Natalie Wigg-Stevenson articulates a theological vision of that genre as performance art. She argues that theology done as performance art stops trying to describe who God is, and starts trying to make God appear. Recognising that the act of studying theology or practicing ministry is always a performance, where the boundaries between what we see, feel, experience and learn are not just blurred but potentially invisible, Wigg-Stevenson brings together ethnographic theological fieldwork, historical and contemporary Christian theological traditions, and performance artworks themselves. A daring vision of theology which will energise anybody feeling ‘boxed in’ by the discipline, Transgressive Devotion blurs borders between orthodoxy, heterodoxy and heresy to reveal how the very act of doing theology makes God and humanity vulnerable to each other. This is theology which is a liturgy of Divine incantation. In other words: this is theology which is also prayer.

Faithful Transgressions In The American West

Faithful Transgressions In The American West
Author: Laura Bush
Publisher:
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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The subjects of Laura Bush's book are six Mormon women writers and their published autobiographies. The central issue Bush finds in these works is how their authors have dealt with the authority of Mormon Church leaders.

Acts of Transgression

Acts of Transgression
Author: Maquel A. Jacob
Publisher: MAJart Works LLC
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2023-02-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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Azrom, Razzna, and New Lassa form an alliance to create a superpower. The Dreridians, not willing to have their reign disrupted, add themselves to the list. The enemy continues their sneak attacks across the five solar systems, disrupting trade. When they hit the neutral zone and steal two planet bombs, every empire joins forces to send them back from where they came. Outsiders need permission to play with the big guns. And they didn’t ask.

In Place/out of Place

In Place/out of Place
Author: Tim Cresswell
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1996
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0816623899

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In Place/Out of Place was first published in 1996. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. What is the relationship between place and behavior? In this fascinating volume, Tim Cresswell examines this question via "transgressive acts" that are judged as inappropriate not only because they are committed by marginalized groups but also because of where they occur. In Place/Out of Place seeks to illustrate the ways in which the idea of geographical deviance is used as an ideological tool to maintain an established order. Cresswell looks at graffiti in New York City, the attempts by various "hippie" groups to hold a free festival at Stonehenge during the summer solstices of 1984–86, and the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in Berkshire, England. In each of the cases described, the groups involved were designated as out of place both by the media and by politicians, whose descriptions included an array of images such as dirt, disease, madness, and foreignness. Cresswell argues that space and place are key factors in the definition of deviance and, conversely, that space and place are used to construct notions of order and propriety. In addition, whereas ideological concepts being expressed about what is good, just, and appropriate often are delineated geographically, the transgression of these delineations reveals the normally hidden relationships between place and ideology-in other words, the "out-of-place" serves to highlight and define the "in-place." By looking at the transgressions of the marginalized, Cresswell argues, we can gain a novel perspective on the "normal" and "taken-for-granted" expectations of everyday life. The book concludes with a consideration of the possibility of a "politics of transgression," arguing for a link between the challenging of spatial boundaries and the possibility of social transformation. Tim Cresswell is currently lecturer in geography at the University of Wales.

Transgression in Three Acts

Transgression in Three Acts
Author: Carolyn Lea
Publisher:
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1997
Genre: Feminism and the arts
ISBN:

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After Queer Studies

After Queer Studies
Author: Tyler Bradway
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2019-01-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108498035

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After Queer Studies centers the literature and critical practices that instigated queer studies and charts trajectories for its further evolution.

Sexual Transgression in the Hebrew Bible

Sexual Transgression in the Hebrew Bible
Author: Hilary B. Lipka
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press Limited
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

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The sex laws of the Hebrew Bible are well known, if not notorious. From them many have concluded that in ancient Israel adultery was a capital crime, that there was no conception of rape, that brides had to be virgins, and that women had no autonomy whatsoever. But was that the reality? Not if we broaden our horizon beyond the laws, argues Lipka, who focusses here on sexual transgression, that is, the trespass against sexual boundaries. She finds three aspects of sexual transgression: it may be transgression against religious boundaries (sexual acts violating divine law), against communal boundaries (sexual acts violating the rights of another member of the community), or against personal boundaries (sexual acts imposed by force and/or violence). Transgressive sex is complicated. But some conclusions are possible. (1) Though adultery was universally disapproved of, there was a wide variety of opinions on who was considered guilty, who was considered the offended party, who was punished, what the punishment was, and who should execute it. (2) There was indeed a conception of rape, with an understanding of its devastating emotional and psychological consequences for the victim. (3) Though virginity in brides was the norm, and young women were under a great deal of pressure to preserve their virginity, it was unrealistic for all men in ancient Israel to expect their wives to be virgins. (4) Women did not enjoy legal autonomy over their sexuality, yet they were not completely powerless; they had some degree of personal sexual autonomy, and some took the liberty of doing with their bodies as they pleased.