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Women and Embodied Mythmaking in Irish Theatre (Paperback)
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The rich legacy of women's contributions to Irish theatre is
traditionally viewed through a male-dominated literary canon and
mythmaking, thus arguably silencing their work. In this timely
book, Shonagh Hill proposes a feminist genealogy which brings new
perspectives to women's mythmaking across the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries. The performances considered include the
tableaux vivants performed by the Inghinidhe na hEireann (Daughters
of Ireland), plays written by Alice Milligan, Maud Gonne, Lady
Augusta Gregory, Eva Gore-Booth, Mary Devenport O'Neill, Mary
Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy, Paula Meehan, Edna O'Brien and Marina
Carr, as well as plays translated, adapted and performed by Olwen
Fouere. The theatrical work discussed resists the occlusion of
women's cultural engagement that results from confinement to
idealised myths of femininity. This is realised through embodied
mythmaking: a process which exposes how bodies bear the
consequences of these myths, while refusing to accept the female
body as passive bearer of inscription through the assertion of a
creative female corporeality.
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