(In)Visible Bodies in Churchill's Theatre

Helene Cixous's The of the Medusa, the controversial manifesto of l'6criture feminine, opens forcefully: I shall speak about women's writing: about what it will do (245). Revolutionary myth as much as practice, feminine celebrates the libidinal multivalence of a woman's body and imagines a uniquely female writing that disrupts, mimics, exceeds, and dismantles what is known in feminist discourse as the patriarchal symbolic.3 Since the 1975/1976 publication of Laugh of the Medusa, Cixous has been accused of ahistorical essentialism, of conceptualizing a female bodyscene that keeps off-stage political and material differences within and between genders.4 For Caryl Churchill, who began writing professionally in the activist climate

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