Unmaking Mimesis: Essays on Feminism and Theatre

ISBN-13: 9780415012287 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 256 str.

Elin Diamond

Opis

Interrogating the concept of mimesis in relation to feminism, theatre and performance, the author combines psychoanalytic, semiotic and materialist strategies with readings of selected plays by those as diverse as Ibsen, Brecht, Aphra Behn, Caryl Churchill and Peggy Shaw. Through a series of readings of theatre, theory and feminist performance, the author demonstrates the continuing force of feminism and mimesis in critical thinking today. This work should interest theatre scholars and performance and cultural theorists, for all of whom issues of text, representation and embodiment are of concern.

Recenzje

'... a dense and rich book, which will greatly reward its readers' closest attention.' - Theatre Research Journal, 1998

Spis treści

Part One Unmaking Mimesis: 1. Introduction 2. Realism Hysteria: Disruption in the Theater of Knowledge i) Doleful Referents ii) Fallen Women: Medical Melodrama iii) Translation and the Hypnoid State iv) Realism's Hysteria v) Hysteria's Realism Part Two Gestic Feminist Criticism: 3. Brechtian Theory/Feminist Theory 4. Gestus, Signature, Body in the Theater of Aphra Behn i) The Apparatus ii) The Wife Thing iii) Disguise and Desire iv) Passionate Address/Gestric Undress v) Allegories of Authority 5. Churchill's Plays: The Gestus of Invisibility 6. Mimesis and Identification: Kennedy's Theater i) Funnyhouse of a Negro, The Owl Answers ii) Movie Star iii) Alexander Plays iv) People Who Led to My Plays 7. Performance and Temporality: Feminist Performance Art

O autorze

Elin Diamond is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University. Editor of Performance and Cultural Politics (Routledge) and author of Pinter's Comic Play, Elin Diamond has also published widely in a variety of performance journals.