Women in Performance: Repurposing Failure

ISBN-13: 9781138223356 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 216 str.

Sarah Gorman

Opis

Women in Performance charts the renewed popularity of intersectional feminism, gender, race and identity politics in contemporary Western experimental theatre, comedy and performance through the featured artists’ ability to strategically repurpose failure.

Spis treści

1 Introduction: female agency, essentialism, negativity and the rebirth of identity politics; 2 Taking back control: invective, irony and inscrutability; 3 Self-care and radical softness: refusing neoliberal resilience; 4 Nightclubbing: queer heterotopia and club culture; 5 Taking pleasure: binary ambivalence and transgression; 6 Tempering anger: asserting the right to define as a comic without further caveat; 7 Afterword

O autorze

Sarah Gorman is a Reader in Drama, Theatre & Performance at the University of Roehampton, London, UK.