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DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nHow might dramatic portrayals of slavery help us r
 ethink the relation between labor\, personhood\, and performance? I consid
 er such portrayals through readings of the writings of master Noh actor\, 
 playwright\, and theorist Zeami Motokiyo (1363–1443)\, and the play Jinen 
 Koji (Genuine Preacher Jinen)\, a Zeami revision in which enthralling danc
 es liberate a slave. The play’s plot is simple: Filial girl sells herself 
 into slavery to pay for parents’ funeral rites. Daring Buddhist preacher d
 ances to purchase her freedom. But what might these coupled exchanges say 
 about calibrated gestures’ capacity to reshape how human life was valued w
 ithin medieval Japan? What types of physical exertions\, emotional transac
 tions\, and potentials for solidarity does the figure of the slave mobiliz
 e—and toward what ends? I argue that Zeami deploys spectacles of gestural 
 economy to question economies of enslavement\, rewrite histories of dispos
 session\, and pose alternatives to performers’ dehumanization.\n
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SUMMARY:Staging Enslavement: Gestural Economies and the Question of Personh
 ood in Medieval Japanese Performance (see Zoom link below)
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 conomies-and-question-personhood-medieval-japanese-performance-see-346049
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