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- Title
Brechtian Theory/ Feminist Theory.
- Authors
Diamond, Elin
- Abstract
This article presents a theatre-specific criticism based on the Brechtian theory and the feminist theory. The umbrella term "feminist theory" covers feminist film theory, feminist literary theory, psychoanalytic feminist theory, socialist feminist theory, black feminist theory, lesbian feminist theory, cross-cultural feminist theory--many of which combine under different rubrics with different topoi, different political inflections. Yet perhaps all theories that call themselves "feminist" share a goal: the passionate analysis of gender in material social relations and in discursive and representational structures, especially theatre and film, which involve scopic pleasures and the body. The cornerstone of Brecht's theory is the Verfremdungseffekt, the technique of defamiliarizing a word, an idea, a gesture so as to enable the spectator to see or hear it afresh. Gender critique in artistic and discursive practices is often and wrongly confused with another topos in feminist theory: sexual difference.
- Subjects
FEMINIST theory; PERFORMING arts; THEATER; FEMINISM; GENDER
- Publication
TDR: The Drama Review (MIT Press), 1988, Vol 32, Issue 1, p82
- ISSN
1054-2043
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.2307/1145871