The Theatre of Naomi Wallace: Embodied Dialogues

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction: The Discourse of the Body....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Death and Desire, Apocalypse, and Utopia: Feminist Gestus and the Utopian Performative in the Plays of Naomi Wallace....Pages 19-34
Love in a Wound....Pages 35-44
Messianic Marxism in Naomi Wallace’s Slaughter City and Things of Dry Hours....Pages 45-56
An American Exile in America....Pages 57-64
The City that Embraced Naomi Wallace....Pages 65-70
Naomi Wallace and the Dramaturgy of Rehearsal....Pages 71-87
Naomi Wallace and the Politics of Desire....Pages 89-102
Crucial Unspeakables, or Pedagogies of the Repressed: Directing Sex in the Plays of Naomi Wallace....Pages 103-116
Mapping The Inland Sea: Naomi Wallace’s British Epic Drama....Pages 117-125
Slip’s Bluff....Pages 127-134
Journeys into the Heart of Whiteness: A Labor Historian Looks at the Work of Naomi Wallace....Pages 135-154
Unbearable Intimacies: Occupation, Utopia, and Creative Destruction in The Fever Chart....Pages 155-167
To Girl or Not to Girl....Pages 169-187
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Standing on Your Head....Pages 191-193
Naomi Is Inside My Head....Pages 195-198
Designing Wallace....Pages 199-201
In the Fields of Naomi Wallace....Pages 203-206
Radical Poetry....Pages 207-209
Being the “Other”: Naomi Wallace and The Middle East....Pages 211-213
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Translating Wallace....Pages 215-217
Betting on Naomi and The Boss....Pages 219-222
Mindscapes of Palestine....Pages 223-225
Directing Wallace....Pages 227-229
Beautiful Resistance....Pages 231-234
The Facts of Love....Pages 235-239
Nettle Soup....Pages 241-243
Front Matter....Pages 245-245
Strange Times....Pages 247-250
Seven Poems....Pages 251-256
Let the Right One In: On Resistance, Hospitality and New Writing for the American Stage....Pages 257-264
Manifesto....Pages 265-266
We Are Also Each Other....Pages 267-269
The Fish Story....Pages 271-274
The Tal Pidae Lehrstücke....Pages 275-279
On Writing as Transgression....Pages 281-286
Back Matter....Pages 287-320