Drama Trauma
Specters of Race and Sexuality in Performance, Video and Art
1st Edition
Published on 5. November 2013
320 pages
978-1-136-20780-8 (ISBN)
Description
In this engaging cross-disciplinary study, Timothy Murray examines the artistic struggle over traumatic fantasies of race, gender, sexuality, and power. Establishing a retrospective dialogue between past and present, stage and video, Drama Trauma links the impact of trauma on recent political projects in performance and video with the specters of difference haunting Shakespeare's plays.
The book provides close readings of cultural formations as diverse as Shakespearean drama, the Statue of Liberty, contemporary plays by women, African-American performance, and feminist interventions in video, performance and installation. The texts discussed include:
* installations by Mary Kelly and Dawn Dedeaux,
* plays by Ntozake Shange, Rochelle Owens, Adrienne Kennedy, Marsha Norman and Amiri Baraka
* performances by Robbie McCauley, Jordan, Orlan, and Carmelita Tropicana
* stage, film and video productions of King Lear, Othello, Romeo and Juliet and All's Well that Ends Well.
The book provides close readings of cultural formations as diverse as Shakespearean drama, the Statue of Liberty, contemporary plays by women, African-American performance, and feminist interventions in video, performance and installation. The texts discussed include:
* installations by Mary Kelly and Dawn Dedeaux,
* plays by Ntozake Shange, Rochelle Owens, Adrienne Kennedy, Marsha Norman and Amiri Baraka
* performances by Robbie McCauley, Jordan, Orlan, and Carmelita Tropicana
* stage, film and video productions of King Lear, Othello, Romeo and Juliet and All's Well that Ends Well.
Reviews / Votes
' ... an intelligent, finely-argued, and always interesting book ... Murray provides a bravura performance of his own.' - Film-PhilosophyMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
37,92 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-136-20780-8 (9781136207808)
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Schweitzer Classification
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09/1997
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Routledge
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09/1997
1st Edition
Routledge
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Person
Timothy Murray is Professor of English at Cornell University. His most recent publications include Like a Film: Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera and Canvas (Routledge 1993) and Mimesis, Masochism and Mime: The Politics of Theatricality in Contemporary French Thought (1997).
Content
List of Figures, Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction, Part One: Sounding Silence in Shakespeare, 2. Getting Stoned: Psychoanalysis and the Epistemology of Tragedy in Shakespeare, 3. Othello, An Index and Obscure Prologue to the History of Foul Generic Thought, 4. 'Misshapen Chaos of Well-Seeming Forms': Specters of Jointure in Romeo and Juliet, Part Two: Writing Women's Vision, 5. Patriarchal Panopticism, or the Enigma of a Woman's Smile: Getting Out in Theory, 6. The Play of Letters: Writing and Possession in Chucky's Hunch, Part Three: Color Adjustments, 7. Differa(n)ce: Screening the Camera's Eye in African-American Drama, 8. In Exile at Home: Tornado Breath and Unrighteous Fantasy in Robbie McCauley's Indian Blood, Part Four: Televisual Fear, 9. Camera Obsura Ideologica: From Vermeer to Video in All's Well That Ends Well, 10. The Contrast Hurts: Censoring the Ladies Liberty in Performance, 11. Televisual Fears and Warrior Myths: Mary Kelly Meets Dawn Dedeaux, Bibliography.
