本书介绍了来自不同背景、以不同形式和风格创作的女性剧作家如何阐述当代世界，并通过她们的舞台作品反映、重新思考和重新想象当代世界，为其重塑做出贡献。本书的框架是一个实质性的导言，描述了整个书的批评视野和结构，后记则指出了二十一世纪第三个十年前夕当代女性剧作领域的新趋势和扩展。在这个框架内，构成本书主体的28个章节，每个章节都关注一个具有关键意义的剧本，共同构成了2000年以来女性剧作家工作的多层面的、不可避免的部分，但仍然是完整的画面，因为她们参与了我们时代的一些最紧迫的问题。其中一些问题包括对妇女、有色人种、LGBTQ+人和少数民族的持续压迫和暴力；正在进行的非殖民化进程；新自由主义资本主义的后果；战争的破坏和持久的创伤；全球移民和难民危机；右翼民粹主义的倾向以及气候变化的影响，包括环境灾难和物种灭绝。
本书的结构分为七个部分。重现经典；展现历史；上演生活；重新想象家庭；导航社区；阐明交叉点以及新世界秩序。这些部分根据剧作的广泛批判性行为对剧集进行分组，或者在最后一个部分中，通过她们上演的看似陷入僵局的政治和环境灾难性的全球当下，捕捉到新的世界秩序。本书涵盖了几代剧作家和学者，从最资深的到职业生涯中期的，再到新兴的声音，将是既定研究者的必读之作，是各级学生的宝贵学习资源，也是戏剧从业者和感兴趣的戏剧观众的实用和易懂的指南。
本书目录：
致谢
简介: Critical Visions
Penny Farfan
I. Replaying the Canon
1 Feminist Adaptations/Adaptations of Feminism: Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad
Penny Farfan
2 Indigenizing the Colonial Narrative: Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife
Denise Varney
3 Does Revenge Fall Softly? Yaël Farber’s Molora
Catherine M. Cole
4 Indecent Collaborations and/in Queer Time(s)
Katie N. Johnson and Sara L. Warner
II. Representing Histories
5 The Bloodstained Distance: Adrienne Kennedy’s He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box
Alisa Solomon
6 Unmaking a Devil’s Bargain: Suzan-Lori Parks’s Father Comes Home from the Wars and the
Idea of America
A Conversation between Soyica Diggs Colbert and Robert J. Patterson
7 “A Change Is Gonna Come”? Protest and Racial Progress in debbie tucker green’s ear for
eye
Lynette Goddard
8 Maternal Agency and Reproductive Justice in Lisa Loomer’s Roe
Sharon L. Green
III. Staging Lives
9 The Mythic Migrant, the Witnessing Self: Hélène Cixous and Le Dernier Caravansérail:
Odyssées
Emine Fişek
10 Exceptional Embodiment in Anna Deavere Smith’s Let Me Down Easy
Ryan Claycomb
11 Acting and Reenacting the Malvinas/Falklands War in Lola Arias’s Minefield/Campo
minado
Paola S. Hernández
12 Fun Home: Lesbian Feminism Meets Broadway Musical Theatre
Stacy Wolf
IV. Reimagining Family
13 A “Rock Inside the Flesh”: Motherwork in Marie Clements’s The Unnatural and Accidental
Women
Karen Bamford and Sheila Rabillard
14 Quiara Hudes’s Water by the Spoonful and the Dramaturgy of Free Jazz
Natalie Alvarez and Jimena Ortuzar
15 British Muslim Feminism and the Marriage Trap: Alia Bano’s Shades
Meenakshi Ponnuswami
16 Lesbian Interspecies Performance: Holly Hughes’s The Dog and Pony Show (bring your own
pony)
Kim Marra
V. Navigating Communities
17 Bread of Life: Whiti Hereaka’s Rēwena
Diana Looser
18 Transcultural Memory and Food in Julia Cho’s Aubergine
Esther Kim Lee
19 Truth and Absurdity on the London Stage: Liwaa Yazji’s Goats and Its Audiences
Margaret Litvin with Liwaa Yazji
20 “I Will Tend Your Garden”: The Terms of Proximity in Grace Passô’s Por Elise
Honey Crawford
VI. Articulating Intersections
21 Dominique Morisseau’s Blood at the Root: Intersectionality and the Jena Six
Juliet Guzzetta
22 Inside Palermo: Economic Disenfranchisement and Gender Inequality in Emma Dante’s
mPalermu
Francesca Spedalieri
23 The Magic of Change: Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s The World of Extreme Happiness
Xing Fan
24 “But Nostalgia’s a Disease”: Viewing Lynn Nottage’s Sweat in the Age of Trump
Courtney Elkin Mohler
VII. New World Order(s)
25 Miss Piggy the Seer in the Land of Trump’s Blind: Elfriede Jelinek’s On the Royal Road:
The Burgher King
Sue-Ellen Case
26 Has She “Escaped Alone” to Tell Us? Caryl Churchill: “Messenger” for the Twenty-First
Century
Rosemary Malague
27 Climate Change and the Capitalocene in Colleen Murphy’s The Breathing Hole
Wendy Arons
28 The Ghosts of Greenham Common in Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children
Lesley Ferris
后记 : Emerging Currents: Fighting on Two Fronts
Lesley Ferris
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