(Re)Constructing Maternal Performance in Twentieth-Century American Drama PDF
by L. Bailey McDaniel
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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- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:05/09/2013
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:05/09/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9781137299574