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Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre

Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre

Case, Sue-Ellen

Paperback

Literary CriticismTheater History

ISBN10: 0801839696
ISBN13: 9780801839696
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: Feb 1 1990
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.94 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

Performing Feminisms is the first book to bring together theoretical works on the theater written from a feminist perspective. This pioneering work uses feminist critical theory, as it have been applied to fiction and the cinema, to explore dramatic tests and performances.

In an introductory essay, Sue-Ellen case provides an overview of the intersection between feminist critical theory and theater in the 1980s. The contributors consider a wide range of themes and strategies--psychoanalytic theory, Lacanian criticism, socialist feminism, lesbianism, history, even the folk theory of Aunt Jemima. Among the contributors, Teresa de Lauretis examines sexual indifference and lesbian representation. Elin Diamond and Sharon Willis use Lacan to dismantle notions of identity. Glenda Dickerson explores womanist attitudes in African-American theater. Yvonne Yarbo-Bejarano discusses the female subject in Chicago theater. Judith Butler destabilizes gender identity in her analysis of the performative act. The writers consider differences across time--from Shakespeare to contemporary performance art--and across ethnic and class boundaries.

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