Voices Made Flesh: Performing Women's AutobiographyLynn C. Miller, Jacqueline Taylor, M. Heather Carver University of Wisconsin Press, 2003 - 322 pagini This volume includes scripts and essays about performances of the lives of women such as Gertrude Stein, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anais Nin, which consider issues that arise when a woman represents another woman's life. In the second section, seven performers tell their own stories, engaging issues of sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, loss of parent, disability, life and death. autobiographical performance. It examines the links between theory and criticism of women's autobiography, feminist performance theory and performance practice. |
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... role model , Taylor goes on to announce that her upbringing as the daughter of a Southern Baptist preacher provided the perfect education for her role of exemplary lesbian . Yet amidst the humor , Taylor continues to mine the seemingly ...
... role model , Taylor goes on to announce that her upbringing as the daughter of a Southern Baptist preacher provided the perfect education for her role of exemplary lesbian . Yet amidst the humor , Taylor continues to mine the seemingly ...
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... role . But this was it - my one chance , and I could not fail . What did I do ? I made a plan . I would impersonate a famous actor who had been a success in the role . Not a bad plan — except that the ac- tor I chose was Sarah Siddons ...
... role . But this was it - my one chance , and I could not fail . What did I do ? I made a plan . I would impersonate a famous actor who had been a success in the role . Not a bad plan — except that the ac- tor I chose was Sarah Siddons ...
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... role in these appearances is to convince audience members that I am just like them , only better . How are we going to develop a politics of inclusion if the only others we're willing to include are the ones who are almost like us ? And ...
... role in these appearances is to convince audience members that I am just like them , only better . How are we going to develop a politics of inclusion if the only others we're willing to include are the ones who are almost like us ? And ...
Cuprins
Exploring Womens Autobiography | 15 |
A Critical Autobiography | 33 |
Gertrude Stein Never Enough | 47 |
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