Aston, Elaine (2010) Feeling the Loss of Feminism: Sarah Kane's Blasted and an Experiential Genealogy of Contemporary Women's Playwriting. Theatre Journal, 62 (4). pp. 575-592. ISSN 01922882
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This essay disinters Blasted, the highly controversial debut play by Sarah Kane, from a masculinist cult of "in-yer-face-ism" in order to propose a genealogy of contemporary women's playwriting on the British stage characterized by an experiential drive to feeling the loss of feminism. Taking Blasted as a seminal point of reference, an experiential genealogy of women's writing is constructed by looking back at work by Rebecca Prichard and Judy Upton, and forward to millennial women's drama-in particular to politically angry newcomer debbie tucker green, whose theatre is examined as a savage critique of a world scarred by an acute lack of altruistic feeling for "others." The essay concludes with brief reflections on the efforts made by new women writers to claim a space on the British stage.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Theatre Journal |
| Subjects: | N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR |
| Departments: | Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts |
| ID Code: | 54673 |
| Deposited By: | ep_importer_pure |
| Deposited On: | 29 May 2012 09:42 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2012 17:14 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/54673 |
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