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Girls, performance, and activism : demanding to be heard

Title
Girls, performance, and activism : demanding to be heard / Dana Edell.
Author
Edell, Dana
Publication
London : Routledge, 2022.

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Description
xii, 209 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"A comprehensive analysis, celebration, and critique of the ways in which teenage girls create and perform activist theater. Girls, particularly Black and Latinx teenagers, are using the tools of performance to share their stories, devise new ones, and use the stage to advocate for social change. Interweaving interviews, poetic text, drama, and theory, this book provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of how and why this field erupted and the ways in which girls are using performance to transform themselves and enact change in their communities. As a white woman who has collaboratively created theater with hundreds of girls of color over the past 20 years, Dana Edell offers strategies for engaging with girls across difference through an intersectional lens in order to acknowledge the ways in which race, gender, age, class, ability, and sexuality influence girls' experiences and relationships with adult collaborators as they work to create meaningful, impactful, and often personal activist performances. This is the go-to handbook for teachers, theater directors, and performance makers who want to create politically engaged work with teenage girls."--
Subject
  • Teenage girls > Political activity
  • Teenage girls, Black > Political activity
  • Theater > Political aspects
  • Feminist theater
  • Teenage girls
  • Political participation
  • Teenage girls, Black
  • Theater
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-193) and index.
Contents
1. "Under construction": girls, performance, and activism -- 2. "This is not a safe space": principles of theatermaking with girls -- 3. "Real im(PERFECT)ions": performing confidence, expressing agency -- 4. "Held momentarily": for an audience of one... plus -- 5. "Shut up and listen!": performance in public spaces -- 6. "Finally someone hears us": considering our audiences -- Conclusion: ripples of change.
Call Number
Sc E 22-1488
ISBN
  • 9780367427092
  • 0367427095
  • 9780367427115
  • 0367427117
OCLC
1240413136
Author
Edell, Dana, author.
Title
Girls, performance, and activism : demanding to be heard / Dana Edell.
Publisher
London : Routledge, 2022.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-193) and index.
Research Call Number
Sc E 22-1488
MWET 22-289
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