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(Re)Constructing Maternal Performance in Twentieth-Century American Drama, PDF eBook

(Re)Constructing Maternal Performance in Twentieth-Century American Drama PDF

Part of the What is Theatre? series

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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.

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