Women and puppetry : critical and historical investigations / edited by Alissa Mello, Claudia Orenstein, and Cariad Astles.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mello, Alissa, editor.

Orenstein, Claudia, ditor.

Astles, Cariad, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women puppeteers.

Puppet theater--History.

Puppet theater.

History.

Women in the theater.

Physical Description:

xx, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Contents:

Part I Critical perspectives on women in puppet theatre p. 17

1 The monster and the corpse: puppetry and the uncanniness of gender performance p. 19 / Laura Purcell-Gates

2 Modes of Pleasure: contemporary feminist erotic puppet theatre from Istanbul with love p. 35 / Deniz Basar

3 Women, marriage, and femininities: "Kkokdu Gaksi Geori" (or the "love triangle" scene) in the Korean traditional puppet play p. 50 / Kyounghye Kwon

4 Erasure, intervention, and reconstruction: imagining women puppeteers in Myanmar p. 66 / Jennifer Goodlander

Part II Local contexts: challenges and transformations p. 83

5 Werewere Liking, Vicky Tsikplonou, and Adama Lucie Bacco: female artists appropriating puppetry to empower women in West Africa p. 85 / Heather Jeanne Denyer

6 Class, gender, and ritual puppetry: negotiating revival for the hakomawashi puppeteers of Tokushima, Japan p. 101 / Claudia Orenstein

7 Whispering women, shouting puppets: women and puppetry in Iran p. 115 / Sahna Mohseni Ardehali

8 Suffragette Judy: Punch and Judy at suffrage fairs and exhibitions in Edwardian London p. 126 / Naomi Paxton

Part III Women practitioners speak p. 141

9 Women and objects p. 143 / Ana Alvarado

10 An expanded language p. 150 / Yngvild Aspeli

11 A puppeteer in Taiwan p. 157 / Chia-yin Cheng, with assistance from Chee-Hann Wu

12 Bricolages p. 165 / Theodora Skipitares

13 Kenyan women in puppet theatre p. 173 / Parmeres (Veronica) Silanka

14 Papermoon Puppet Theatre: the journey of making contemporary puppet theatre come alive in the land of Java p. 179 / Maria (Ria) Tri Sulistyani

15 A fragile form p. 189 / Janni Younge.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780415787383

0415787386

0415787394

9780415787390

OCLC:

1061818626