Echo's Voice: The Theatres of Sarraute, Duras, Cixous and Renaude

Echo's Voice: The Theatres of Sarraute, Duras, Cixous and Renaude
ISBN-10
1351568922
ISBN-13
9781351568920
Category
Foreign Language Study
Pages
284
Language
English
Published
2017-07-05
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Mary Noonan

Description

Helene Cixous (1937-), distinguished not least as a playwright herself, told Le Monde in 1977 that she no longer went to the theatre: it presented women only as reflections of men, used for their visual effect. The theatre she wanted would stress the auditory, giving voice to ways of being that had previously been silenced. She was by no means alone in this. Cixous's plays, along with those of Nathalie Sarraute (1900-99), Marguerite Duras (1914-96), and Noelle Renaude (1949-), among others, have proved potent in drawing participants into a dynamic 'space of the voice'. If, as psychoanalysis suggests, voice represents a transitional condition between body and language, such plays may draw their audiences in to understandings previously never spoken. In this ground-breaking study, Noonan explores the rich possibilities of this new audio-vocal form of theatre, and what it can reveal of the auditory self.

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