Making a spectacle : [electronic resource] feminist essays on contemporary women's theatre / edited and with an introduction by Lynda Hart ; contributors, Stephanie Arnold ... [et al.].
Contributor(s): Hart, Lynda.
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TextSeries: Women and culture series. Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1989Description: 347 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0472063898 (pbk. : alk. paper) :; 9780472063895 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0472093894 (hard : alk. paper) :; 9780472093892 (hard : alk. paper).Subject(s): American drama -- Women authors -- History and criticism | Women and literature -- English-speaking countries -- History -- 20th century | American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism | English drama -- Women authors -- History and criticism | English drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Feminist drama -- History and criticism | Women in literature | Feminist theater | Théâtre américain -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique | Théâtre anglais -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique | Femmes dans la littérature | Écrits de femmes américains -- Histoire et critique | Écrits de femmes anglais -- Histoire et critique | Critique féministeDDC classification: 812/.54/099287 Online resources: Free eBook from the Internet Archive | Additional information and access via Open Library Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : performing feminism / Lynda Hart -- Mass culture and metaphors of menace in Joan Schenkar's plays / Vivian M. Patraka -- Body art : hunger and satiation in the plays of Tina Howe / Nancy Backes -- Music as metaphor : new plays of Black women / Margaret B. Wilkerson -- The madwoman in the spotlight : plays of Maria Irene Fornes / Gayle Austin -- Rejecting necrophilia : Ntozake Shange and the warrior re-visioned / Mary K. Deshazer -- Revisionary endings : Pam Gem's Aunt Mary and Camille / Susan Carlson -- Beth Henley : female quest and the family-play tradition / Jonnie Guerra -- "They don't even look like maids anymore" : Wendy Kesselman's My sister in this house / Lynda Hart.
Marsha Norman's She-tragedies / Jenny S. Spencer -- Making magic public : Megan Terry's traveling family circus / Jan Breslauer and Helene Keyssar -- Dissolving the half shadows : Japanese American women playwrights / Stephanie Arnold -- Re-presenting women writers onstage : a retrospective to the present / Anita Plath Helle -- Toward a re-vision of Chicano theatre history : the women of El Teatro Campesino / Yolanda Broyles González -- Michelene Wandor : artist and ideologue / Janelle Reinelt -- (In)visible bodies in Churchill's theater / Elin Diamond -- Toward a butch-femme aesthetic / Sue-Ellen Case -- Mirrors moving beyond frames : Sandra Shotlander's Framework and Blind Salome / Rosemary Curb -- Bending gender to fit the canon : the politics of production / Jill Dolan.