Throw Yourself Away

Julia Jarcho is a writer, theater artist, and scholar. She is head of playwriting and associate professor in the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University and an OBIE Award–winning playwright and director with the New York-based company Minor Theater. Her plays have been published in the collection Minor Theater: Three Plays, and she is the author of Writing and the Modern Stage: Theater beyond Drama.

“Reading masochism as a technology of world-building, Jarcho attends to the intersections of desire, negation, and race. Brilliant and seductive, this book illuminates how fantasy gets transmitted, casting the masochist as an important architect for our present moment. You’ll never be able to think of masochism or the self in the same way again.”

• Introduction: Another Book about MasochismChapter 1. “You’re Not a Masochist”: Sadism, Realism, and Fantasy in Gaitskill, Deleuze, and FreudChapter 2. Cruel Theater: Hedda Gabler and “Nona Vincent”Chapter 3. “Caught Fire in My Mind”: Adrienne Kennedy’s Intimacies of NegationChapter 4. “With Both Hands”: Autotheory’s Masochistic TheaterChapter 5. Pure LoveChapter 5b. CurtainsAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex