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Matrescence Re-enacted: Feminist Mimesis

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  • Source: Matrescence and Performance , pp 41-59
  • Publication Date: April 2026
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/9781835952269_5
  • Language: English
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Matrescence Re-enacted: Feminist Mimesis
Intellect , 41 (2026); https://doi.org/10.1386/9781835952269_5
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  4. Bissell, Laura (2019), ‘There is such a thing: Feminist mimesis in contemporary performance in the UK’, Contemporary Theatre Review, 28:4, pp. 522–36, https://doi.org/10.1080/10486801.2018.1511548.
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  5. Bowen, Eleanor and González, Laura (2023), The Hysteric: Outline of a Figure, London: Routledge.
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  6. Braidotti, Rosi (2002), Metamorphoses: Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming, Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers.
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  7. Diamond, Elin (1997), Unmaking Mimesis, London: Routledge.
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  8. Erickson, Jon (2009), ‘On mimesis (and truth) in performance’, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, 23:2, pp. 21–38, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/dtc.2009.0010.
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  16. Henry, Susannah (2023), Tired Mummy Makes a Performance. On Interrupted Time and Space, ResearchWorks, Guildhall, 16 October.
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  19. Jackson, Shirley ([1953] 2019), Life Among the Savages, London: Penguin.
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  23. Schneider, Rebecca (1997), The Explicit Body in Performance, London: Routledge.
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  25. Search Party Website (n.d.), ‘My Son & Heir’, http://searchpartyperformance.org.uk/project/my-son-and-heir/. Accessed 23 July 2024 .
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  27. Tsitsiridis, Stavros (2005), ‘Mimesis and understanding: An interpretation of Aristotle's poetics’, The Classical Quarterly, New Series, 55:2, pp. 435–46.
     [Google Scholar]
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