Pt. I. Unmaking mimesis. 1. Realism's hysteria: disruption in the theater of knowledge -- Pt. II. Gestic feminist criticism. 2. Brechtian theory/feminist theory: toward a gestic feminist criticism. 3. Gestus, signature, body in the theater of Aphra Behn. 4. Caryl Churchill's plays: the gestus of invisibility -- Pt. III. Toward a feminist postmodern. 5. Identification and mimesis: the theater of Adrienne Kennedy. 6. Performance and temporality: feminism, experience, and mimetic transformation
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