Staging modernist lives : H.D., Mina Loy, Nancy Cunard, three plays and criticism / / Sasha Colby

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910160346503321
• Autore: Colby Sasha
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montreal & Kingston, Quebec ; ; London, [England] ; ; Chicago, [Illinois] : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2017; ©2017
• ISBN: 0-7735-4896-3; 0-7735-4895-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (331 pages)
• Classificazione: HQ 5999
• Disciplina: 811.52
• Soggetti: American drama - 20th century - History and criticism; English drama - 20th century - History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) - English-speaking countries; DRAMA / General
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Staging Modernist Lives: Theory and Practice -- H.D.’s Autobiographical Theatre -- The Tree -- Performance, Performativity, and the Search for Mina Loy -- The Mina Loy Interviews -- Nancy Cunard and the Heterotopic Stage -- These Were the Hours -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Three modernist women, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961), Mina Loy (1882-1966), and Nancy Cunard (1896-1965), came to define the interwar avant-garde through their experimental writing and unconventional pursuits. In Staging Modernist Lives, Sasha Colby dramatizes these women’s lives and writing in three new plays that traverse the origins of modernism, Parisian literary circles, two world wars, the Spanish Civil War, and race and gender relations in the first half of the twentieth century. Leveraging each writer’s autobiographical materials, the plays explore the work of H.D., Loy, and Cunard as artists, publishers, and activists, their quests for self-definition amid political and historical upheaval, and their development as modernists among mentors, detractors, lovers, and friends including Bryher ; Ellerman, Ezra Pound, Sigmund Freud, Gertrude Stein, Arthur Cravan, D.H. Lawrence, and Pablo Neruda. Navigating the emerging field of research-creation, Staging Modernist Lives maps the critical terrain for dramatized literary inquiry. Bridging scholarship and creative practice, extant biographical drama and the possibilities of research-theatre, Staging Modernist Lives demonstrates how performance can deliver literary history to new audiences - and how research in turn reinvigorates itself through performance.