The Gaze of the Caged Woman
Sexuality and Performance in Selected Beckett Plays
Seiten
2018
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New edition
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-78874-422-5 (ISBN)
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-78874-422-5 (ISBN)
This book investigates the themes of female entrapment and the feminine gaze and explores how they function as theatrical metaphors in later Beckett plays. It offers a new perspective on love between Beckettian women, interrogating the trope of bodily sickness and its manifestations on stage and analysing how this relates to queer drives in women.
This book investigates the themes of female entrapment and the feminine gaze, and explores how they function as theatrical metaphors in Samuel Beckett’s later plays. It offers a novel perspective on love between Beckettian women, interrogating the trope of bodily sickness and its manifestations on the stage, and analysing how this relates to queer drives in women. Ambitious and thought-provoking, the book engages with the work of a range of theorists on psychoanalysis, feminism, sexuality, voyeurism and theatricality. The arguments presented here will be of interest to specialists in modernism and postmodernism, theatre, and gender studies.
This book investigates the themes of female entrapment and the feminine gaze, and explores how they function as theatrical metaphors in Samuel Beckett’s later plays. It offers a novel perspective on love between Beckettian women, interrogating the trope of bodily sickness and its manifestations on the stage, and analysing how this relates to queer drives in women. Ambitious and thought-provoking, the book engages with the work of a range of theorists on psychoanalysis, feminism, sexuality, voyeurism and theatricality. The arguments presented here will be of interest to specialists in modernism and postmodernism, theatre, and gender studies.
Ila Ahlawat is currently teaching at University of Windsor in Canada, having previously been a postdoctoral researcher with the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University, Budapest. She has published in the areas of feminism, intertextuality and media studies.
CONTENTS: Inside the Mounds, Urns and Bins: Living the Other Way – Of Pathless Wanderings and Mothers and Daughters – Drowning the Memory of the Father – Voicing the Self from Darkness.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 18.10.2018 |
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| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 225 mm |
| Gewicht | 384 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78874-422-5 / 1788744225 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78874-422-5 / 9781788744225 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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