Format:
Online-Ressource (277 p)
ISBN:
9780817310806
Content:
This timely collection addresses the neglected state of scholarship on southern women dramatists by bringing together the latest criticism on some of the most important playwrights of the 20th century.Coeditors Robert McDonald and Linda Rohrer Paige attribute the neglect of southern women playwrights in scholarly criticism to ""deep historical prejudices"" against drama itself and against women artists in general, especially in the South. Their call for critical awareness is answered by the 15 essays they include in Southern Women Playwrights, considerations of the creative work of universally
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Current State of Scholarship on Southern Women Playwrights; 2. "Let the People Sing!": Zora Neale Hurston and the Dream of a Negro Theater; 3. These Four: Hellman's Roots Are Showing; 4. Carson McCullers, Lillian Smith, and the Politics of Broadway; 5. The Delayed Entrance of Lily Mae Jenkins: Queer Identity, Gender Ambiguity, and Southern Ambivalence in Carson McCullers's The Member of the Wedding; 6. "Controversy Only Means Disagreement": Alice Childress's Activist Drama
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7. Role-ing on the River: Actors Theatre of Louisville and the Southern Woman Playwright8. Precursor and Protégé: Lillian Hellman and Marsha Norman; 9. "Un-ruling" the Woman: Comedy and the Plays of Beth Henley and Rebecca Gilman; 10. Pseudonymy and Identity Politics: Exploring "Jane Martin"; 11. Dialectic and the Drama of Naomi Wallace; 12. Amparo Garcia and the Eyes of Tejas: Texas Community through Mexicana Eyes; 13. Recon¤guring History: Migration, Memory, and (Re)Membering in Suzan-Lori Parks's Plays; 14. The Memory Palace in Paula Vogel's Plays
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15. Postmodern Monologues in Regina Porter's Tripping through the Car House16. Southern Women Playwrights and the Atlanta Hub: Home Is the Place Where You Go; Contributors; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817313463
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817310790
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Southern Women Playwrights : New Essays in History and Criticism
Language:
English
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