- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (19 Jun 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415012295
- ISBN-13: 978-0415012294
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 2.1 cm
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""Unmaking Mimesis is a powerful critical and symptomatic performance that reveals in all their complexity the most pressing and problematic issues for feminist performance, on the page and the stage, today."
-"PAJ, May 1999
..."although Diamond's writing style is dense and often complex, to do the work of reading her book is an intellectual challenge that will reward those who think about and make theater with and innovative set of ideas- a set of ideas to be mulled over, transformed, and, most importantly, used."
-"Theater Magazine, 1998
"A necessary guide to the critical space between women's performance and the misreadings of their representation. Read as critical theory, or as essays on women's contemporary and historical performances, this work is indispensable for the study of representations of gender..""
--Sue Ellen Case, University of California, Riverside
-"PAJ, May 1999
..."although Diamond's writing style is dense and often complex, to do the work of reading her book is an intellectual challenge that will reward those who think about and make theater with and innovative set of ideas- a set of ideas to be mulled over, transformed, and, most importantly, used."
-"Theater Magazine, 1998
"A necessary guide to the critical space between women's performance and the misreadings of their representation. Read as critical theory, or as essays on women's contemporary and historical performances, this work is indispensable for the study of representations of gender..""
--Sue Ellen Case, University of California, Riverside
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In Unmaking Mimesis Elin Diamond interrogates the concept of mimesis in relation to feminism, theatre and performance. She combines psychoanalytic, semiotic and materialist strategies with readings of selected plays by writers as diverse as Ibsen, Brecht, Aphra Behn, Caryl Churchill and Peggy Shaw.
Through a series of provocative readings of theatre, theory and feminist performance she demonstrates the continuing force of feminism and mimesis in critical thinking today.
Unmaking Mimesis will interest theatre scholars and performance and cultural theorists, for all of whom issues of text, representation and embodiment are of compelling concern.
Through a series of provocative readings of theatre, theory and feminist performance she demonstrates the continuing force of feminism and mimesis in critical thinking today.
Unmaking Mimesis will interest theatre scholars and performance and cultural theorists, for all of whom issues of text, representation and embodiment are of compelling concern.
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Noticeable immediately in this statement is the ease with which the writer identifies not only a genre, 'the literature of hysteria,' and its characteristic strategies and tone, but also its characteristic audience/reader: women whose minds are engaged in 'needles self-torture,' who perversely indulge their 'craving' for unhappiness - who exhibit, in other words, the very symptoms of hysteria they were seeing enacted on stage. Read the first page
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Noticeable immediately in this statement is the ease with which the writer identifies not only a genre, 'the literature of hysteria,' and its characteristic strategies and tone, but also its characteristic audience/reader: women whose minds are engaged in 'needles self-torture,' who perversely indulge their 'craving' for unhappiness - who exhibit, in other words, the very symptoms of hysteria they were seeing enacted on stage. Read the first page
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