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

ISBN-13: 9781137299567 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 227 str.

L Bailey McDaniel

Opis

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 tra

Recenzje

To come.

Spis treści

Introduction: If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother? Race, Sex, Class and "Essential" Maternity 1. New Woman (Re)Production: Progressive Era Eugenics in Rachel Crothers' "Feminist" Mother 2. Ethnic Anxieties, Post-Modern Angst, and Maternal Bodies in Philip Kan Gotanda's The Wash and Fish Head Soup 3. Race and the "Domestic" Threat: Sexing the Mammy in Tony Kushner, Alfred Uhry, and Cheryl West 4. Queering the Domestic Diaspora, "Enduring" Borderlands: Cherríe Moraga's Familia de la Frontera Conclusion: Nurturing Performance, Raising Questions

O autorze

L. Bailey McDaniel is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Oakland University, USA.