The Resource Lives in play : autobiography and biography on the feminist stage, Ryan Claycomb
Lives in play : autobiography and biography on the feminist stage, Ryan Claycomb
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The item Lives in play : autobiography and biography on the feminist stage, Ryan Claycomb represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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The item Lives in play : autobiography and biography on the feminist stage, Ryan Claycomb represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "Lives in play explores the centrality of life narratives to women's drama and performance from the 1970s to the present moment. In the early days of second-wave feminism, the slogan was 'The personal is the political.' These autobiographical and biographical 'true stories' have the political impact of the real and have also helped a range of feminists tease out the more complicated aspects of gender, sex, and sexuality in a Western culture that now imagines itself to be 'postfeminist.' The book covers a broad range of texts and performances, from performance artists like Karen Finley, Holly Hughes, and Bobby Baker to playwrights like Suzan-Lori Parks, Maria Irene Fornes, and Sarah Kane. The book examines biography and autobiography together to link their narrative tactics and theatrical approaches and show the persistent and important uses of life writing strategies for theater artists committed to advancing women's rights and remaking women's representations. Lives in play argues that these writers and artists have not only responded to the vibrant conversations in feminist theory but also have anticipated and advanced these ideas, theorizing gender onstage for specific ends. Ryan Claycomb demonstrates how these performances work through tensions between performative identity and the essentialized body, between the truth value of life stories and the constructed nature of gender and narrative alike, and between writing and performing as modes of feminist representation. The book will appeal to scholars in performance studies, women's studies, and literature, including those in the growing field of auto/biography studies."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Contents
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- Introduction: Lives in play
- I. Autobiography: the body and self in performance
- Performative lives, performed selves: autobiography in feminist performance
- Autobiography and the rhetoric of the embodied self
- The autobiographical play and the death of the playwright: Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis
- II. Biography: staging women's lives
- Staging women's lives, staging feminist performances
- A life in the (meta) theater: writing/rehearsing/acting out
- Performing race and the object of biography
- Performing global lives
- Isbn
- 9780472028535
- Label
- Lives in play : autobiography and biography on the feminist stage
- Title
- Lives in play
- Title remainder
- autobiography and biography on the feminist stage
- Statement of responsibility
- Ryan Claycomb
- Subject
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- American drama -- Women authors | History and criticism
- Aufführung
- Autobiografie
- Autobiography in literature
- Autobiography in literature
- Biografie
- Biography in literature
- Biography in literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- DRAMA -- American
- Electronic books
- Englisch
- Feminism and literature
- American drama -- Women authors
- Feminismus
- Feminist drama
- Feminist drama -- History and criticism
- Frau
- Frauenbewegung
- Frauendrama
- Frauentheater
- PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater | General
- USA
- United States
- Feminism and literature -- United States
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Lives in play explores the centrality of life narratives to women's drama and performance from the 1970s to the present moment. In the early days of second-wave feminism, the slogan was 'The personal is the political.' These autobiographical and biographical 'true stories' have the political impact of the real and have also helped a range of feminists tease out the more complicated aspects of gender, sex, and sexuality in a Western culture that now imagines itself to be 'postfeminist.' The book covers a broad range of texts and performances, from performance artists like Karen Finley, Holly Hughes, and Bobby Baker to playwrights like Suzan-Lori Parks, Maria Irene Fornes, and Sarah Kane. The book examines biography and autobiography together to link their narrative tactics and theatrical approaches and show the persistent and important uses of life writing strategies for theater artists committed to advancing women's rights and remaking women's representations. Lives in play argues that these writers and artists have not only responded to the vibrant conversations in feminist theory but also have anticipated and advanced these ideas, theorizing gender onstage for specific ends. Ryan Claycomb demonstrates how these performances work through tensions between performative identity and the essentialized body, between the truth value of life stories and the constructed nature of gender and narrative alike, and between writing and performing as modes of feminist representation. The book will appeal to scholars in performance studies, women's studies, and literature, including those in the growing field of auto/biography studies."--Jacket
- Cataloging source
- CDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1974-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Claycomb, Ryan M.
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- American drama
- Feminist drama
- Autobiography in literature
- Biography in literature
- Feminism and literature
- DRAMA
- PERFORMING ARTS
- American drama
- Autobiography in literature
- Biography in literature
- Feminism and literature
- Feminist drama
- United States
- Frauendrama
- Frauentheater
- Frau
- Aufführung
- Frauenbewegung
- Feminismus
- Biografie
- Autobiografie
- Englisch
- USA
- Label
- Lives in play : autobiography and biography on the feminist stage, Ryan Claycomb
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: Lives in play -- I. Autobiography: the body and self in performance -- Performative lives, performed selves: autobiography in feminist performance -- Autobiography and the rhetoric of the embodied self -- The autobiographical play and the death of the playwright: Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis -- II. Biography: staging women's lives -- Staging women's lives, staging feminist performances -- A life in the (meta) theater: writing/rehearsing/acting out -- Performing race and the object of biography -- Performing global lives
- Control code
- ocn808867123
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780472028535
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
-
- 9786613862877
- ebc3415083
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 386287
- 22573/ctt1d8k5q1
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)808867123
- Label
- Lives in play : autobiography and biography on the feminist stage, Ryan Claycomb
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: Lives in play -- I. Autobiography: the body and self in performance -- Performative lives, performed selves: autobiography in feminist performance -- Autobiography and the rhetoric of the embodied self -- The autobiographical play and the death of the playwright: Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis -- II. Biography: staging women's lives -- Staging women's lives, staging feminist performances -- A life in the (meta) theater: writing/rehearsing/acting out -- Performing race and the object of biography -- Performing global lives
- Control code
- ocn808867123
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780472028535
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
-
- 9786613862877
- ebc3415083
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 386287
- 22573/ctt1d8k5q1
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)808867123
Subject
- American drama -- Women authors | History and criticism
- Aufführung
- Autobiografie
- Autobiography in literature
- Autobiography in literature
- Biografie
- Biography in literature
- Biography in literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- DRAMA -- American
- Electronic books
- Englisch
- Feminism and literature
- American drama -- Women authors
- Feminismus
- Feminist drama
- Feminist drama -- History and criticism
- Frau
- Frauenbewegung
- Frauendrama
- Frauentheater
- PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater | General
- USA
- United States
- Feminism and literature -- United States
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