Staging International Feminisms

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-349-54113-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 322 g

Reihe: Studies in International Performance

This is a landmark anthology of international feminist theatre research. A three-part structure orientates readers through Cartographies of feminist critical navigations of the global arena; the staging of feminist Interventions in a range of international contexts; and Manifestos for today's feminist practitioners, activists and academics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aston, E.

Case, S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations Series Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction; E.Aston & S-E.Case PART ONE: CARTOGRAPHIES Bloody Aprons: Suzan-Lori Parks, Deborah Warner and Feminist Performance in the Age of Globalization; E.Diamond Mind Yourself: On Soundwalking, Race and Gender; K.Shimakawa Globalizing Neoliberalism, Travelling Feminisms: Pollesch@Prater; K.Sieg The Queer Globe Itself; S-E.Case PART TWO: INTERVENTIONS Actress Stories: Binodini and Amal Allana; B.Dutt Stockholm Interventions: Feminist Activist Performance; T.Rosenberg Women's Writing for Performance Project: 'Making' a Feminist Intervention; E.Aston Reconstructing a Diasporic Female Self in O Kyong-Sook's Dictee - A Speaking Woman; J-S.Shim Giving Back to Judith: Laura Curino's Una stanza tutta per me/ A Room of My Own; R.Gandolfi Anticipating Globalization: Rosamond Gilder and the International Theatre Institute; C.Canning Exile and the Elusive Qualities of Time; J.Holledge Cultural Memory in El Séptimo Cielo: An International Staging of Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine; N.Hernando-Real Stretching Medea to Postmodern Sensibilities; E.Sakellaridou A Journey Towards Sensitisation and Empowerment: Feminist Performance and Intervention Theatre in the City of Jaipur; A.Pande The Demon's Nuns: Petrona de la Cruz Cruz and Isabel Juárez Espinosa (Mexico); D.Taylor PART THREE: MANIFESTOS Reflection on the work that is being done within FOMMA with respect to women, gender and patriarchy, change, new generations and new technologies; I.J.Espinosa MAKE SOMETHING: a manifesto for making performance about making change; L.Weaver & P.Shaw Pakistani Muslim Theatre at Home and Abroad: A Critical Manifesto for a Feminist Home-Coming; F.Afzal-Khan Reflections on My Literary Performance Theatre: A Manifesto for Nigerian Women; I.I.Salami-Agunloye A Manifesto for an Israeli She Monster; Y.Feiler Feminist Performance and Utopia: A Manifesto; J.Dolan Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

FAWZIA AFZAL-KHAN is Professor at Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA
CHARLOTTE CANNING is Professor of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin, USA
ELIN DIAMOND is Professor of English at Rutgers University, USA
JILL DOLAN holds the Zachary T. Scott Family Chair in Drama in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin, USA
BISHNUPRIYA DUTT is Associate Professor in the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
YAEL FEILER teaches at the Department of Theatre Studies, University of Stockholm, Sweden
ROBERTA GANDOLFI teaches theories and practices of directing at the University of Ferrara, Italy
NOELIA HERNANDO-REAL teaches English and American Literature at La Salle College in Madrid, Spain
JULIE HOLLEDGE is Professor of Drama and Director of the Flinders University Drama Centre, Australia
ISABEL JUÁREZ ESPINOSA is co- founder of FOMMA (Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya or the Empowerment of Mayan Women), the Mayan Indian women's centre in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico
ASHA PANDE is Head of the Department of Modern European Languages at the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India
TIINA ROSENERG is Professor in Gender Studies at Lund University, Sweden
ELIZABETH SAKELLARIDOU is Professor of Theatre Studies in the Department of English, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
IRENE SALAMI is Associate Professor at the University of Jos, Nigeria, Africa
PEGGY SHAW is anactor, writer and producer
JUNG-SOON SHIM is Professor in the English Department, Soongsil University in Seoul, Korea
KAREN SHIMAKAWA is an Associate Professor of Performance Studies at New York University, USA
KATRIN SIEG is Associate Professor affiliated with the BMW Centre for German and European Studies and the German department at Georgetown University, USA
DIANA TAYLOR is Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at New York University, USA
LOIS WEAVER lectures in Contemporary Performance at Queen Mary University of London, UK