內容大鋼
本書以當代美國具有代表性的三位女性劇作家瑪莎·諾曼、溫迪·華瑟斯坦和保拉·沃格爾的九部戲劇作為研究對象，綜合運用儀式理論、表演性理論和女性主義理論，探討儀式表演與女性自我建構、儀式與女性戲劇美學之間的關係。研究認為儀式具有很強的顛覆性、表演性和生成性，是劇中女性人物克服身份危機、實現自我賦權的實踐策略，也是劇作家組織戲劇行動、表現女性主義思想的戲劇技巧。同時還揭示了女性身份認同的表演性，闡明性別身份並不是本質的、固定不變的存在，而是身體重複執行準則、動作、姿勢和慾望的表演結果。
作者介紹
李淑玲|責編:張淑文
李淑玲，副教授，文學博士，碩士生導師，畢業於南京大學，現任教於中國礦業大學外國語言文化學院。主要從事英美文學、比較文學研究。在《當代外國文學》《外國文學動態研究》《四川戲劇》及Frontiers of Narrative Studies 等國內外學術期刊發表論文三十余篇，主編出版教材一部。主持完成中國外語教育基金、江蘇省社會科學基金、中國礦業大學青年基金三項研究課題，參與完成國家社科、教育部人文社科、江蘇省教育廳等五項研究課題。
目錄
Introduction
Woman-Conscious Drama: The Euvre of Norman, Wasserstein and Vogel
Literature Review
Ritual, Liminal Female Self and Performativity
Chapter One Destruction and Resurrection: Marginalized
Women Reborn from Death Ritual and Ritual Death
An Ex-con's Self-Reformation Through Rites of Affliction and Renaming
An Epileptic's Self-Empowerment by Performing Her Own Requiem Mass
A Whore's Elevation to Spiritual Guide in Initiating a Few Rituals
Chapter Two Compliance and Resistance: Educated Women
Redefined by (Mis)performing Rituals
Becoming 「Uncommon Women" by Carnivalizing College Rituals
A Humanist's Conversion to Feminist by Participating in a CR Ritual
Three Sisters'Self-Renewal after a Jewish Ritual of Sabbath Sundown
Chapter Three Subversion and Reconstruction: Transgressive
Women Empowered Through Parodied Rituals
Negotiating Gender Roles in Playacting Rituals of 「Dying and 「Service
Identifying with the Other Through Fantasized 「Rite of Loving Exorcism
Shifting Power Through Parodied Rites of Initiation and Courtship
Chapter Four The Performativity of Ritual and Identity in
Contemporary American Women's Drama
Ritual in the Women's Movement and the Feminist Ritual Theater
The Performativity of Ritual
The Performativity of Female Self
Conclusion
References
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