226 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
226 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
226 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Women in Performance: Repurposing Failure charts the renewed popularity of intersectional feminism, gender, race and identity politics in contemporary Western experimental theatre, comedy and performance through the featured artists’ ability to strategically repurpose failure.
Failure has provided a popular frame through which to theorise recent avantgarde performance, even... Read more
1 Introduction: female agency, essentialism, negativity and the rebirth of identity politics; 2 Taking back control: invective, irony and inscrutability; 3 Self-care and radical softness: refusing neoliberal resilience; 4 Nightclubbing: queer heterotopia and club culture; 5 Taking pleasure: binary ambivalence and transgression; 6 Tempering anger: asserting the right to define as a comic without further caveat; 7 Afterword
Biography
Sarah Gorman is a Reader in Drama, Theatre & Performance at the University of Roehampton, London, UK.
