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Graduate Student, Gender Studies
Ph.D. Candidate
Thesis Title: The Return of the Flesh: Poetics of Male Hysteria for Stage
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Sophie Howlett
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Modernist theatre directors (Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Artaud) produce in their theories of acting/theatre making a hysterical discourse by doing what Kristeva calls “politics at the micro level.” In this sense, my dissertation is a displacement of the political from the universal public domain to the singular and intimate spaces of signification. I am not trying to come up with a new theory of theatre aesthetics by re-reading theatre "classics" in a psychoanalytical/feminist/political way but to continue the Kristevan project of displacing politics from the public to the intimate domain, by supporting the internal contradictions of unconscious desire and conscious political actions. The male hysteric is a situated, culturally differentiated understanding of the subject, a myth, and another political fiction, a move against established conventions of theoretical, philosophical or theatrical thinking. The radicalism of such a political project that looks back at the constructions of femininity and hysteria, takes the form of negativity of movement and change, a hysterical discourse that plays on stage and page with drives, bodies, language and meaning.
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