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Martha Graham's Gilded Cage: Blood Memory—An Autobiography (1991)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2013

Victoria Phillips
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Abstract

Although scholars, including myself, use Blood Memory to quote Martha Graham as evidence, other academics and dancers themselves have asserted that Graham did not write or construct the “autobiography.” The cross-reading of archives uncovers the narrative history of the making of Blood Memory, and how Graham, editors, and handlers constructed and reconstructed the book. In conclusion, by reading Graham's extensive oral histories and early writings, both scholars and dancers can recover the voice of the choreographer and woman.

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Martha GrahamBiographyBlood MemoryAuthorship

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Dance Research Journal , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , August 2013 , pp. 63 - 83
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Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 2013 

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