Elin Diamond

Unmaking Mimesis

Essays on Feminism and Theatre

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Produktbeschreibung

Through a series of provocative readings of theatre, theory and feminist performance, Elin Diamond demonstrates the continuing force of feminism and mimesis in critical thinking today. Unmaking Mimesis will interest theatre scholars and performance and cultural theorists, for all of whom issues of text, representation and embodiment are of compelling concern.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780415012294
• ISBN-10: 0415012295
• Artikelnr.: 21499948

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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