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- catalog abstract ""Impossible Performances: Duras as Dramatist argues that Marguerite Duras is one of the most important figures on the landscape of twentieth-century theater. Like Artaud and Beckett, she is exemplary of the most radical inquiry into the limits of performance. Duras used theater against itself and dramatized the failure of mimetic realism to represent the post-colonial, post-atomic moment. Unlike Artaud's and Beckett's, Duras's metaphysics of performance were motivated by a desire to make audible the subjectivities of femininity, to unstage the representational structures that have (re)produced the docile female body of western discourse. Duras's drama consistently features female protagonists who exist in a relationship of struggle with the representational frame and who speak back to the viewing authorities of a masculine symbolic. In this sense, her performance texts and mental dramas can be said to epitomize the move away from the problematics of modernist revolt to one of the most salient rhetorical concerns of post-modern feminism: the impossibility of representation."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11775868.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Impossible Performances: Duras as Dramatist argues that Marguerite Duras is one of the most important figures on the landscape of twentieth-century theater. Like Artaud and Beckett, she is exemplary of the most radical inquiry into the limits of performance. Duras used theater against itself and dramatized the failure of mimetic realism to represent the post-colonial, post-atomic moment.".
- catalog description "In this sense, her performance texts and mental dramas can be said to epitomize the move away from the problematics of modernist revolt to one of the most salient rhetorical concerns of post-modern feminism: the impossibility of representation."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-158) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Duras as Dramatist -- Ch. 1. The False Solution of Theater -- Ch. 2. The Gestus of Absence, the Body Disembodied: L'Amante Anglaise -- Ch. 3. Duras's Endgames and Apocalyptic Footnotes: Les Eaux et Forets: Yes, Peut-Etre; Le Shaga; Detruire, Dit-Elle -- Ch. 4. On the Continents of Her Mind: Duras's Theater of Emptied Space: India Song: L'Eden Cinema; Savannah Bay -- Ch. 5. Eros and Thanatos: Love in the Durasian World: Aurelia Steiner; The Man Sitting in the Corridor -- Ch. 6. Impossible Performances: The Malady of Death; Blue Eyes, Black Hair -- Epilogue: Paper Tombs.".
- catalog description "Unlike Artaud's and Beckett's, Duras's metaphysics of performance were motivated by a desire to make audible the subjectivities of femininity, to unstage the representational structures that have (re)produced the docile female body of western discourse. Duras's drama consistently features female protagonists who exist in a relationship of struggle with the representational frame and who speak back to the viewing authorities of a masculine symbolic.".
- catalog extent "viii, 162 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Impossible performances.".
- catalog identifier "0820444855 (casebound)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Impossible performances.".
- catalog isPartOf "Literature and the visual arts ; vol. 14".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : P. Lang,".
- catalog relation "Impossible performances.".
- catalog subject "842/.912 21".
- catalog subject "Duras, Marguerite Dramatic works.".
- catalog subject "PQ2607.U8245 Z62 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Duras as Dramatist -- Ch. 1. The False Solution of Theater -- Ch. 2. The Gestus of Absence, the Body Disembodied: L'Amante Anglaise -- Ch. 3. Duras's Endgames and Apocalyptic Footnotes: Les Eaux et Forets: Yes, Peut-Etre; Le Shaga; Detruire, Dit-Elle -- Ch. 4. On the Continents of Her Mind: Duras's Theater of Emptied Space: India Song: L'Eden Cinema; Savannah Bay -- Ch. 5. Eros and Thanatos: Love in the Durasian World: Aurelia Steiner; The Man Sitting in the Corridor -- Ch. 6. Impossible Performances: The Malady of Death; Blue Eyes, Black Hair -- Epilogue: Paper Tombs.".
- catalog title "Impossible performances : Duras as dramatist / Gabrielle H. Cody.".
- catalog type "text".