03433nam 2200541 450 991016034650332120220405172322.00-7735-4896-30-7735-4895-510.1515/9780773548954(CKB)3710000001021046(MiAaPQ)EBC4787308(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/q04hxv(DE-B1597)657519(DE-B1597)9780773548954(EXLCZ)99371000000102104620170130h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierStaging modernist lives H.D., Mina Loy, Nancy Cunard, three plays and criticism /Sasha ColbyMontreal & Kingston, Quebec ;London, [England] ;Chicago, [Illinois] :McGill-Queen's University Press,2017.©20171 online resource (331 pages)0-7735-4893-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexThree 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.American drama20th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish drama20th centuryHistory and criticismModernism (Literature)English-speaking countriesDRAMA / GeneralbisacshAmerican dramaHistory and criticism.English dramaHistory and criticism.Modernism (Literature)DRAMA / General.811.52HQ 5999rvkColby Sasha915694MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910160346503321Staging modernist lives2052703UNINA