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1 online resource |
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What is theatre? |
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What is theatre?
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| Contents |
Introduction: If it's not one thing, it's your mother: race, sex, class and "essential" maternity -- New woman (re)production: progressive era eugenics in Rachel Crothers' "feminist" mother -- Ethnic anxieties, post-modern angst, and maternal bodies in Philip Kan Gotanda's The wash and fish head soup -- Race and the "domestic" threat: sexing the Mammy in Tony Kushner, Alfred Uhry, and Cheryl West -- Queering the domestic diaspora, "enduring" borderlands: Cherríe Moraga's Familia de la frontera -- Conclusion: Nurturing performance, raising questions |
| Summary |
Looking at a century of American theatre, McDaniel investigates how racially-informed notions of motherhood become sites of resistance to social and political hierarchies. (Re)Constructing Maternal Performance in Twentieth-Century Drama locates a broad tradition of 'counter maternities', politically resistant performances that engage essentialist identities. While resituating motherhood as a role not always tied to biological gender, McDaniel employs a methodology informed by cultural, gender, and theatre studies and considers how the construction of mothering as universally women's work obscures additional, marginalizing identities based in race and class |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Motherhood in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Theatre studies -- USA. -- 20th century.
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Gender studies: women -- USA. -- 20th century.
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DRAMA -- American.
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Performing Arts.
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American drama
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Motherhood in literature
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Sex role in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137299574 |
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1137299576 |
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9781137299567 |
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1137299568 |
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