Echo's Voice: The Theatres of Sarraute, Duras, Cixous and Renaude

ISBN-13: 9781907975509 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 176 str.

Noonan, Mary

Opis

HElEne Cixous (1937-), distinguished not least as a playwright herself, told Le Monde in 1977 that she no longer went to the theatre: it presented women only as reflections of men, used for their visual effect. The theatre she wanted would stress the auditory, giving voice to ways of being that had previously been silenced. She was by no means alone in this. Cixous's plays, along with those of Nathalie Sarraute (1900-99), Marguerite Duras (1914-96), and NoElle Renaude (1949-), among others, have proved potent in drawing participants into a dynamic 'space of the voice'. If, as psychoanalysis suggests, voice represents a transitional condition between body and language, such plays may draw their audiences in to understandings previously never spoken. In this ground-breaking study, Noonan explores the rich possibilities of this new audio-vocal form of theatre, and what it can reveal of the auditory self.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Voice and the Auditory: Connecting Theory and Theatre 2. Desire in Language: Nathalie Sarraute's Theatre of Interpellation 3. A Sound-Mirror or Audio-Phonic Skin': Voice and Listening in the Theatre of Marguerite Duras 4. Song of the Forbidden Body: The Theatre of Hélène Cixous 5. Un Corps vivant de symbôles: Noëlle Renaude's Staging of the Writing Self 6. Conclusion

O autorze

Mary Noonan