Imagining Medea : Rhodessa Jones & theater for incarcerated women / Rena Fraden ; foreword by Angela Y. Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fraden, Rena.

Series:

Gender & American culture.

Gender & American culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prison theater--California.

Prison theater.

Women prisoners--Services for--California.

Women prisoners.

Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women.

Jones, Rhodessa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Imagining Medea : Rhodessa Jones and theater for incarcerated women

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""This ain't no Dreamgirls,"" Rhodessa Jones warns participants in the Medea Project, the theater program for incarcerated women that she founded and directs. Her expectations are grounded in reality, tempered, for example, by the fact that women are the fastest growing population in U.S. prisons. Still, Jones believes that by engaging incarcerated women in the process of developing and staging dramatic works based on their own stories, she can push them toward tapping into their own creativity, confronting the problems that landed them in prison, and taking control of their lives. Ren

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Index; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; 1 A Counter Epic: Making the Medea Project; 2 To Be Real: Rehearsing Techniques; 3 Prison Discourse: Surveying Lives; 4 Community Work: Imagining Other Spaces; Appendix: Selected Performing and Directing Biography of Rhodessa Jones; Notes; Bibliography; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-240) and index.

ISBN:

9798890873750

9781469610979

1469610973

OCLC:

830162738