246 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
246 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
246 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Tragic Resistance analyzes playwrights, directors, and performers who shatter gender norms to gain agency within the patriarchal institutions restricting them.
The artists in this book work against the tragic narratives that would otherwise constrict them: the tragedy of Antigone unmade by Judith Malina, the history of "The Venus Hottentot" pulled into the present in Suzan-Lori Parks's... Read more
1. A Little More Than Kin: Theories of Antigone 2. Antigones Resist 3. Venus: Scripting Resistance 4. Chiasmic Nots: Explicit Resistance in Performance Art 5. Margaret Cho and the Tragedy of Anna Nicole Smith
Biography
Megan Shea teaches in the Tisch School of the Arts and is a Clinical Professor of Expository Writing at New York University.
