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Author Rena, Fraden

Title Imagining Medea : Rhodessa Jones and Theater for Incarcerated Women
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (430 pages)
Series Gender and American Culture
Gender & American culture.
Contents Cover Page; Imagining Medea; Copyright Page; Dedication; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 A Counter Epic; CHAPTER 2 To Be Real; CHAPTER 3 Prison Discourse; CHAPTER 4 Community Work; APPENDIX; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary Fraden explores artist Rhodessa Jones's theater work with incarcerated women, known as the Medea Project. Balancing narrative and commentary, Fraden chronicles the process of turning the inmates' personal stories into public performance and investigates the possibilities for communication and social change of such combinations of art and activism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-240) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Jones, Rhodessa.
SUBJECT Jones, Rhodessa fast
Subject Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women.
SUBJECT Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women fast
Subject Prison theater -- California
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- History & Criticism.
Prison theater
California
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469610979
1469610973