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Like a natural woman: Constructing ...

Douglas, Jennifer Darlene.

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Like a natural woman: Constructing gender from performance to performativity.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Like a natural woman: Constructing gender from performance to performativity./
作者:	Douglas, Jennifer Darlene.
面頁冊數:	249 p.
附註:	Adviser: Bette London.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-08A.
標題:	Literature, English. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3279140
ISBN:	9780549204862

Like a natural woman: Constructing gender from performance to performativity.
Douglas, Jennifer Darlene.

Like a natural woman: Constructing gender from performance to performativity. - 249 p.

Adviser: Bette London.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Rochester, 2007.

This dissertation asserts that drama and theatre can uniquely help us examine the formation of gendered subjectivity. More specifically, as the theories of gender performance and performativity have developed, they have been applied more widely to novels, films, and everyday life than they have to drama. To correct this omission, this study extends the discourse of performativity to theater, and in doing so, promotes a dialogue between the fields of Drama and Performance Studies, which often focus on different objects of analysis. This dissertation combines analysis of plays and performance art, as both sources can be fertile ground for discussing the performance of gender. While Judith Butler has argued that the performativity of gender should be examined outside of theater performance, this project argues that theater can provide us with a more focused lens for studying performativity. The plays and performance art represented here highlight different modes of performing gender through representations of the female body, and each of these representations introduces the tension between the body as discursively produced and the lived, phenomenological body onstage. By exploring this tension, the performativity of gender onstage arises from a combination of words, the presentation of tangible bodies and the audience's response to the stage action. This project examines modernist playwright Samuel Beckett alongside Cuban-American performance artist Ana Mendieta and emerging Irish playwright Marina Carr in order to represent different modes of performance and resistance to constrictive social norms. Just as Beckett's actor suffers, Mendieta often subjects her own body to discomfort in order to expose ways in which women's bodies have been objectified, and Carr focuses on socially ostracized women who often suffer violence from their communities. Both Carr and Mendieta represent a new genealogy of performance stemming from Beckett's experimental use of the stage and the bodies of the actors. While Beckett's increasingly bare stage produces bodies through words, Mendieta's body-centered performance art transforms her own body, and Carr's more recent mythically-inspired tragedies showcase transgressive, bold women.

ISBN: 9780549204862Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017709
Literature, English.

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