Introduction : the ends of performance / Peggy Phelan
History, memory, necrophilia / Joseph Roach
Seeing death : the photography of David Wojnarowicz / Robert Sember
On colonial forgetting : the conquest of New Mexico and its Historia / Jill Lane
Perfoming writing / Della Pollock
Teaching "experimental critical writing" / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
This black body in question / Amanda Denise Kemp
A fool's discourse : the buffoonery syndrome / Mady Schutzman
Spare parts / Theresa M. Senft
AmeRican accents syncopate the state / Doris Sommer
Border watching / Diana Taylor
Staging crisis : twin tales in moving politics / Randy Martin
Bodies outside the state : Black British women playwrights and the limits of citizenship / May Joseph
Genre trouble : (the) butler did it / Jon McKenzie
The mirrored stage : reflections on the presence of Sylvia [Bataille] Lacan / Jamer Hunt
Virtual criticism and the dance of death / Marcia B. Siegel
The bed took up most of the room / Jane Blocker
Orlan's performative transformations of subjectivity / Tanya Augsburg
Intervention / Orlan
Of mice, bugs and women / Deb Margolin
What is performance studies anyway? / Richard Schechner