TY - BOOK AU - Hart,Lynda TI - Making a spectacle: feminist essays on contemporary women's theatre SN - 0472063898 (pbk. : alk. paper) : AV - PS338.W6 M3 1989 U1 - 812/.54/099287 22 PY - 1989/// CY - Ann Arbor PB - University of Michigan Press KW - American drama KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism KW - Women and literature KW - English-speaking countries KW - History KW - 20th century KW - English drama KW - Feminist drama KW - Women in literature KW - Feminist theater KW - Théâtre américain KW - 20e siècle KW - Histoire et critique KW - Théâtre anglais KW - Femmes dans la littérature KW - Écrits de femmes américains KW - Écrits de femmes anglais KW - Critique féministe N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction : performing feminism / Lynda Hart -- Mass culture and metaphors of menace in Joan Schenkar's plays / Vivian M. Patraka -- Body art : hunger and satiation in the plays of Tina Howe / Nancy Backes -- Music as metaphor : new plays of Black women / Margaret B. Wilkerson -- The madwoman in the spotlight : plays of Maria Irene Fornes / Gayle Austin -- Rejecting necrophilia : Ntozake Shange and the warrior re-visioned / Mary K. Deshazer -- Revisionary endings : Pam Gem's Aunt Mary and Camille / Susan Carlson -- Beth Henley : female quest and the family-play tradition / Jonnie Guerra -- "They don't even look like maids anymore" : Wendy Kesselman's My sister in this house / Lynda Hart; Marsha Norman's She-tragedies / Jenny S. Spencer -- Making magic public : Megan Terry's traveling family circus / Jan Breslauer and Helene Keyssar -- Dissolving the half shadows : Japanese American women playwrights / Stephanie Arnold -- Re-presenting women writers onstage : a retrospective to the present / Anita Plath Helle -- Toward a re-vision of Chicano theatre history : the women of El Teatro Campesino / Yolanda Broyles González -- Michelene Wandor : artist and ideologue / Janelle Reinelt -- (In)visible bodies in Churchill's theater / Elin Diamond -- Toward a butch-femme aesthetic / Sue-Ellen Case -- Mirrors moving beyond frames : Sandra Shotlander's Framework and Blind Salome / Rosemary Curb -- Bending gender to fit the canon : the politics of production / Jill Dolan UR - http://www.archive.org/details/makingspectaclef00hart UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL2051149M ER -