Research Catalog

Title

The theatre of Naomi Wallace : embodied dialogues / edited by Scott T. Cummings and Erica Stevens Abbitt.

Publication

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cummings, Scott T., 1953-
• Abbitt, Erica Stevens

Description

xvi, 320 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• Wallace, Naomi
• Drama
• Wallace, Naomi > Criticism and interpretation
• Wallace, Naomi, (1960-....) > Critique et interprétation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

List of Illustrations -- Preface: Embodied Dialogues / Erica Stevens Abbitt -- Introduction: The Discourse of the Body / Scott T. Cummings -- Part I: Writings on Wallace -- 1. Death and Desire, Apocalypse, and Utopia: Feminist Gestus and the Utopian Performative in the Plays of Naomi Wallace / Shannon Baley 2. Love in a Wound / Scott T. Cummings 3. Messianic Marxism in Naomi Wallace's Slaughter City and Things of Dry Hours / Buell Wisner -- 4. An American Exile in America / Vivian Gornick -- 5. The City that Embraced Naomi Wallace / Walter Bilderback -- 6. Naomi Wallace and the Dramaturgy of Rehearsal / Lindsay B. Cummings -- 7. Naomi Wallace and the Politics of Desire / Josephine Machon -- 8. Crucial Unspeakables, or Pedagogies of the Repressed: Directing Sex in the Plays of Naomi Wallace / Beth Cleary -- 9. Mapping The Inland Sea: Naomi Wallace's British Epic Drama / Art Borreca -- 10. Slip's Bluff / Neil Chudgar -- 11. Journeys into the Heart of Whiteness: A Labor Historian Looks at the Work of Naomi Wallace / Peter Rachleff -- 12. Unbearable Intimacies: Occupation, Utopia, and Creative Destruction in The Fever Chart / Adam John Waterman -- 13. To Girl or Not To Girl / Erica Stevens Abbitt -- Part II: Collaborators -- Standing on Your Head / Dominic Dromgoole -- Naomi Is Inside My Head / Ron Daniels -- Designing Wallace / Riccardo Hernandez -- In the Fields of Naomi Wallace / Jessica Dromgoole -- Radical Poetry / David Gothard -- Being the 'Other': Naomi Wallace and the Middle East / Ismail Khalidi -- Translating Wallace / Dominique Hollier -- Betting on Naomi and the Boss / Raz Shaw -- Mindscapes of Palestine / Erin B. Mee -- Directing Wallace / Jo Bonney -- Beautiful Resistance / Abdelfattah Abusrour -- The Facts of Love / Robin D. G. Kelley -- Nettle Soup / Bruce McLeod -- Part III: Wallace in her own words -- 1. Strange Times -- 2. Seven Poems -- 3. Let the Right One In -- 4. Manifesto -- 5. We Are Also Each Other -- 6. The Fish Story -- 7. The Tal Pidae Lehrstucke -- 8. On Writing as Transgression -- Appendix A: Naomi Wallace Selected Production History -- Appendix B: Naomi Wallace Play Titles and Their Sources -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index.

Call Number

MWES (Wallace, N.) 14-5047

ISBN

• 9781137017918 (hbk.)
• 1137017910 (hbk.)

LCCN

2013027570

OCLC

854906226

Title

The theatre of Naomi Wallace : embodied dialogues / edited by Scott T. Cummings and Erica Stevens Abbitt.

Publisher

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Cummings, Scott T., 1953- editor.

Abbitt, Erica Stevens, editor.

Research Call Number

MWES (Wallace, N.) 14-5047