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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. Youll never be able to think of masochism or the self in the same way again. * Amber Jamilla Musser, Graduate Center, City University of New York *
From its charming opening assertion that Masochism is basic to its final reflections on the devastations of motherhood, Throw Yourself Away is bracing, passionate, and self-critical. Jarcho imagines the scene of writing as masochistic, one that depends on the authors will to formal closure and her desire to leave the door open to something else. Jarcho offers brilliant analyses of this fantasy in a range of texts, including her own. Throw Yourself Away is a live critical event, high-stakes and utterly compelling. * Heather Love, University of Pennsylvania *

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 Awardwinning 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.

Introduction: Another Book about Masochism
Chapter 1. Youre Not a Masochist: Sadism, Realism, and Fantasy in Gaitskill, Deleuze, and Freud
Chapter 2. Cruel Theater: Hedda Gabler and Nona Vincent
Chapter 3. Caught Fire in My Mind: Adrienne Kennedys Intimacies of Negation
Chapter 4. With Both Hands: Autotheorys Masochistic Theater
Chapter 5. Pure Love
Chapter 5b. Curtains

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index