Background
Jannarone, Kimberly Daughter of Kathy Tidwell and August Gregory Jannarone.
( Artaud and His Doubles is a radical re-thinking of one ...)
Artaud and His Doubles is a radical re-thinking of one of the most influential theater figures of the twentieth century. Placing Artaud's writing within the specific context of European political, theatrical, and intellectual history, the book reveals Artaud's affinities with a disturbing array of anti-intellectual and reactionary writers and artists whose ranks swelled catastrophically between the wars in Western Europe. Kimberly Jannarone shows that Artaud's work reveals two sets of doubles: one, a body of peculiarly persistent received interpretations from the American experimental theater and French post-structuralist readings of the 1960s; and, two, a darker set of doubles---those of Artaud's contemporaries who, in the tumultuous, alienated, and pessimistic atmosphere enveloping much of Europe after World War I, denounced the degradation of civilization, yearned for cosmic purification, and called for an ecstatic loss of the self. Artaud and His Doubles will generate provocative new discussions about Artaud and fundamentally challenge the way we look at his work and ideas.
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Jannarone, Kimberly Daughter of Kathy Tidwell and August Gregory Jannarone.
Bachelor, Emory University, Atlanta, 1993. Master of Fine Arts, Yale School Drama, New Haven. Doctor of Fine Arts, Yale School Drama, New Haven, 2000.
Visiting assistant professor University Washington, Seattle, 2000—2001. Assistant professor University California, Santa Cruz, since 2001.
( Artaud and His Doubles is a radical re-thinking of one ...)
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Member of International Federation for Theater Research, Modern Languages Association, Association Theater in Higher Education, American Society Theater Research (Essay prize 2010).