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Record Nr.

UNINA9910510563603321

Autore

Simic Lena

Titolo

Maternal performance : feminist relations / / Lena Simić and Emily Underwood-Lee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

3-030-80226-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 pages)

Collana

Contemporary Performance InterActions

Disciplina

792.082

Soggetti

Feminist theater

Women in the performing arts

Motherhood and the arts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Maternal Performance -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 Beginnings (1 Month) -- Maternal Connections -- Our Subjective Maternal Maps -- Contexts and Questions -- Feminism and the Maternal -- Performance Studies and the Maternal -- Maternal Methodologies -- References -- 2 Loss (2 Months) -- The Place of Parting -- Creativity and Grief -- Emily on Fern Smith and Patrick Fitzgerald's This Imaginary Woman -- Lena on Elina Brotherus' Annonciation -- Living with Maternal Loss -- References -- 3 Pregnancy (3 Months) -- Maternal Experience -- On Performance, Pregnancy, and Time -- Pregnancy and the Challenges of Its Representation in Performance -- On Hannah Ballou's goo:ga -- Emily on Aleksandra Nikolajev-Jones' Gravida -- Lena on Quarantine's Spring. -- Presenting the Uncontainable -- References -- 4 Birth (4 Months) -- Narrating Birth -- To Begin Anew -- Birth in Performance -- On Marni Kotak's The Birth of Baby X -- Lena on Third Angel's Partus -- Intermission, from the Collective to the Particular -- Emily on Tracy Breathnach-Evans' Cord -- Birth Stories as Action -- References -- 5 Aftermath (5 Months) -- Maternal Jouissance -- Lena on Lenka Clayton's An Artist Residency in Motherhood and Lizzie Philps' Maternity Leaves -- Emily on Grace Surman's I Love My Baby and My Baby Loves Me and Megan Wynne's Affirmation (I Am a Professional



Artist) and My Puppet -- Maternal Knowledge -- References -- 6 Maintenance (6 Months) -- The Maternal and Labour -- The Maternal and Care -- The Maternal and Time -- On Jessica Olah's 2 340 Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches -- Lena on Grace Surman's Performance with Hope -- Emily on Liz Clarke's Cannonballista -- Renewal and Repetition -- References -- 7 Generations (7 Months) -- Intergenerational Exchanges -- Political Generations -- Emily on Peggy Shaw's To My Chagrin.

Lena on Hannah Buckley's Untitled (Elsie and Hannah) and Courtney Kessel's In Balance With and A Blessing, A Wish, A Spell for the Next Generation -- Intergenerational Reciprocity -- References -- 8 Futures (8 months) -- Letters to an Unknown Future -- On Nanna Lysholt Hansen's Dear Daughter, Lynn Lu's Adagio, Tend, and The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, and Paula Varjack, Luca Rutherford, Catriona James, and Maddy Costa's TheBabyQuestion -- References -- 9 New Beginnings (9 months) -- New Contexts and New Questions -- Emily on Performance and Maternal Interruptions -- Lena on Performance and Maternal Liberation -- Maternal Openings -- Maternal Performance Relations -- References -- Index.