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More than performance poetry, spoken word, and/or slam, Daphne Gottlieb lives, and breathes, and expresses.....Titled for the last girl left alive in the classic horror movie, Final Girl traces the history of the archetypal lone survivor and her counterpart, the femme fatale. Though the slasher flick is central, Gottlieb also spins resonances from sources as varied as early American captivity narratives, queer and feminist film theory, and the intimate pain of her own mother's death. Via her universal Final Girl and through such iconic American figures as Sojourner Truth and Patty Hearst, Gottlieb explores the ways in which we're betrayed by our cultural assumptions and fantasies about abduction, gender, literature, pleasure, and transgression. Dramatic monologues as you've never heard them before.
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