Caryl Churchill's Eco-Socialist Feminism

Elaine Aston (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

74 Seiten

2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-53424-6 (ISBN)

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Pivotal to Caryl Churchill's What If If Only (2021) is the ghost of a democratic future that never happened. Framed by What If If Only, if-only yearnings for a democratic future are seminal to this Element with its primary attentions to the feminist, socialist and ecological values of Churchill's theatre. Arguing for the triangulation of the latter, the study elicits insights into: the feeling structures of Churchill's plays; reparative strategies for the renewal of an eco-feminist-socialist politics; the conceptualisation of the 'political is personal' to understand the negative emotional impact that an anti-egalitarian regime has on people's lives; and relations between dystopian criticality and utopian desire. Hannah Proctor's notion of 'anti-adaptive healing' is invoked to propose a summative understanding of Churchill's theatre as engaging audiences in anti-adaptive, resistant feelings towards a capitalist order and healing through a utopic sensing that an alternative future is desirable and still possible.

Introduction; 1. Structures of feminist feeling; 2. Against 'The Great Moving Right Show'; 3. The political is personal; 4. Towards a theatre of 'Anti-Adaptive Healing'; References.

Erscheinungsdatum	28.10.2025
Reihe/Serie	Elements in Women Theatre Makers
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	273 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-009-53424-6 / 1009534246
ISBN-13	978-1-009-53424-6 / 9781009534246
Zustand	Neuware