Drama trauma : specters of race and sexuality in performance, video and art
In this interdisciplinary study, Tim Murray examines the artistic struggle over traumatic fantasies of race, gender, sexuality and power.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiv, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780415157889, 9780415157896, 0415157889, 0415157897
222231603
1. Introduction: Performing Trauma: The Scare of Academic Cool
2. Getting Stoned: Psychoanalysis and the Epistemology of Tragedy in Shakespeare
3. Othello, An Index and Obscure Prologue to the History of Foul Generic Thoughts
4. "Misshapen Chaos of Well-Seeming Forms": Specters of Jointure in Romeo and Juliet
5. Patriarchal Panopticism, or the Enigma of a Woman's Smile: Getting Out in Theory
6. The Play of Letters: Writing and Possession in Chucky's Hunch
7. Differa(n)ce: Screening the Camera's Eye in Afro-American Drama
8. In Exile at Home: Tornado Breath and Unrighteous Fantasy in Robbie Mccauley's Indian Blood
9. Camera Obscura Ideologica: From Vermeer to Video in All's Well That Ends Well
10. The Contrast Hurts: Censoring the Ladies Liberty in Performance
11. Televisual Fears and Warrior Myths: Mary Kelly Meets Dawn Dedeaux