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Women Creators: Representations of Space and Place in Women's Writing
Introduction to the dossier \"Women Creators: Representations of Space and Place in Women’s Writing,\" guest edited by Dr. Alinne Balduino P. Fernandes (Modern Languages, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil), and Dr. Melissa Sihr (Drama Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), in celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the first issue of Ilha do Desterro exclusively dedicated to women writers. The 1985 issue, Women Writers/Mulheres Escritoras, was edited by Professor Susana Bornéo Funck, one of the pioneers in women studies at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, and the pioneer lecturer in women’s writing UFSC’s Modern Languages department (Departamento de Língua e Literatura Estrangeiras).
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Renegotiating landscapes of the female: voices, topographies and corporealities of alterity in Marina Carr's Portia Coughlan. Paper in: Performing Ireland, Singleton, Brian, and McMullan, Anna (eds).
Sihra offers a broad overview of some of the major concerns of Irish theater over the last 100 years of its history, in order to provide a context for the discussion of the work of one of the most prominent of contemporary Irish playwrights, Marina Carr. While Carr is certainly not the only female playwright currently working in Irish theater, she is unique in having her work regularly performed at the National Theatre, and in achieving a high level of critical, national, and international recognition as a writer in the theater. Sihra points out that Carr specifically refers to and incorporates elements of the familiar literary Irish canon, including the energy of Synge's poetic language and the lore of myth and folklore invoked by W. B. Yeats and Augusta Gregory.
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Publications Dossier: Changing the Landscape of Irish Theatre Studies
This dossier aims to report on recent developments and interventions that are changing the landscape of Irish theatre-studies scholarship, revealing the ways in which discourses of nationalism, sexuality, gender, class and the family are being renegotiated. Critical analysis of Irish theatre has, up until recently, focused upon the dramatic text in a legacy of work that has traditionally been valued for its ‘literary’ merit. Now, we can see how an interrogation of the process of canonicity and a focus on the conditions and potential of performance are being addressed by a new generation of scholarship. Such research serves to critique the narratives leading up to, and beyond, Irish independence, repositioning the relationship between the founders of the Irish Literary Revival at the turn of the twentieth century and cultural nationalism, as well as resituating the dramaturgical praxis of a central figure such as John Millington Synge. Contributors to this dossier also draw attention to the ways in which recent publications on Irish theatre take social transformations into account, and give a sense of the ever-shifting trajectories of theatre, performance and culture on the island.
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Rebel Women
Presents essays by leading writers and academics examining the stagingof Greek drama. This book presents a collection of twelve essays byleading academics, writers and theatre practitioners examining therepresentation of ancient Greek heroines in their original contexts.
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