Shonagh Hill

Women and Embodied Mythmaking in Irish Theatre

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Produktbeschreibung

Provides an historical overview of women's mythmaking and thus their contributions to, and an alternative genealogy of, modern Irish theatre.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 545g
• ISBN-13: 9781108485333
• ISBN-10: 1108485332
• Artikelnr.: 55388593

Autorenporträt

Shonagh Hill teaches at University College Dublin. She was awarded an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship 2016-17 (University College Dublin) to develop her monograph Women and Embodied Mythmaking in Irish Theatre. Hill has published articles on women and Irish theatre in a range of leading journals and internationally reviewed books. Most recently, 'Feeling Out of Place: The 'affective dissonance' of the feminist spectator in The Boys of Foley Street' was published in Performance, Feminism and Affect in Neoliberal Times (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: a creative female corporeality
1. Revolutionary bodies: mythmaking and Irish feminisms
2. Unhomely bodies: transforming space
3. Process and resistance: metamorphic 'bodies that matter'
4. Staging female death: sacrificial and dying bodies
5. Haunted bodies and violent pasts
6. Olwen Fouéré's Corpus: the performer's body and her body of work.