Afterlife of the Theatre of the Absurd: The Avant-garde, Spectatorship, and Psychoanalysis

ISBN-13: 9782807601918 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 222 str.

Lara Cox

Opis

This book challenges Martin Esslin's signature tome The Theatre of The Absurd which categorized Absurdist plays reductively as displaying an existentialist crisis of "Man" and provocatively proposes that avant-garde theater of the past is capable of making subversive interventions in the now.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction - Comedy in Unexpected Places: Ionesco's The Bald Soprano (1950) - Remembrance Through Rejection: Active Nihilism, Vietnam, and Adamov's Off Limits - Psychotic recuperations of a multi-racial feminism in Beckett's Not I (1972) - Genet's The Blacks: Remixed at the Intersection of Gender and Race - Queering the Carceral and Assaulting America's Prison Industrial Complex: Arrabal's And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers

O autorze

Lara Cox teaches English at Université Picardie Jules Verne (France). She gained her Ph.D. in French theatre from the University of Exeter in 2012. She has published on visual culture (theatre, film, stand-up, art) and gender studies.