Searching the silences for the sounds of a "new poetics'in the female voice

dc.contributor.authorSinger, Jacqui
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-12T08:14:58Z
dc.date.available2016-08-12T08:14:58Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.date.updated2016-01-22T13:04:44Z
dc.description.abstractThis research proceeds from the belief that the female voice is silent, or is seemingly absent, in theatre. I refer, in this exploration, specifically to the latter half of the twentieth century when the impact of feminist critical theory might have shifted this view of silence and absence. In terms of the female voice in theatre, I refer to the focus given to the voice by performers, directors and playwrights. The term 'the female voice", is used here to refer to multiple aspects of the voice(s) of women in theatre; in performance, it refers to both the sound of the voice and the structural elements or morphology; and in the writing of performance, the words and structure of the text. The complexity implied by the use of this term will reveal itself through my search for the many facets of the sound of the female voice and its structure. The term is also intentionally used to uncover the uniqueness of the female voice and of that which is specific to women and arguably less defined by logocentric or patriarchal structures. A further distinction is made with the use of the term, in a more symbolic and collective sense, to denote the public and political voice of women.
dc.identifierhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10137548.2009.9687902
dc.identifier.apacitationSinger, J. (2009). Searching the silences for the sounds of a "new poetics'in the female voice. <i>South African Theatre Journal</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21210en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationSinger, Jacqui "Searching the silences for the sounds of a "new poetics'in the female voice." <i>South African Theatre Journal</i> (2009) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21210en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationSinger, J. (2009). Searching the silences for the sounds of a" new poetics" in the female voice. SATJ: South African Theatre Journal, 23, 68-83.
dc.identifier.issn1013-7548
dc.identifier.ris TY - Journal Article AU - Singer, Jacqui AB - This research proceeds from the belief that the female voice is silent, or is seemingly absent, in theatre. I refer, in this exploration, specifically to the latter half of the twentieth century when the impact of feminist critical theory might have shifted this view of silence and absence. In terms of the female voice in theatre, I refer to the focus given to the voice by performers, directors and playwrights. The term 'the female voice", is used here to refer to multiple aspects of the voice(s) of women in theatre; in performance, it refers to both the sound of the voice and the structural elements or morphology; and in the writing of performance, the words and structure of the text. The complexity implied by the use of this term will reveal itself through my search for the many facets of the sound of the female voice and its structure. The term is also intentionally used to uncover the uniqueness of the female voice and of that which is specific to women and arguably less defined by logocentric or patriarchal structures. A further distinction is made with the use of the term, in a more symbolic and collective sense, to denote the public and political voice of women. DA - 2009 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - South African Theatre Journal LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2009 SM - 1013-7548 T1 - Searching the silences for the sounds of a "new poetics'in the female voice TI - Searching the silences for the sounds of a "new poetics'in the female voice UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21210 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/21210
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10137548.2009.9687902
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationSinger J. Searching the silences for the sounds of a "new poetics'in the female voice. South African Theatre Journal. 2009; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21210.en_ZA
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Dramaen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.sourceSouth African Theatre Journal
dc.source.urihttp://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rthj20/current
dc.titleSearching the silences for the sounds of a "new poetics'in the female voice
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