Women & Performance
Vol. 17 Issue 1 2007

1 Preface
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3 The Wound Kept Open
Jack Smith, queer performance and cultural failure
Dominic Johnson

19 Undoing Performance
The Mute Female Body and narrative Dispossession in Pedro Almodoacutevar's Talk to her
Carla Marcantonio        
        
37 Refracting an Orientalist Lens
The instability and performance in Moufida Tlatli's The silences of the palace
Laura Rice
        
59 A Performative Turn
Kara Walker's Song of the South (2005)
Lorraine Morales Cox
        
89 Young Jean Lee's Ugly Feelings About Race And Gender
Stuplime animation in Songs of the dragons flying to heaven
Karen Shimakawa

103 BOOK REVIEW
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107 Film Review
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113 – 116

117 Contributors
Preamble

199 Miscellany