On a wharf in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where Greenwich Village bohemians gathered in the summer of 1916, Susan Glaspell was inspired by a sensational murder trial to write Trifles, a play about two women who hide a Midwestern farm wife's motive for murdering her abusive husband. Following successful productions of the play, Glaspell became the "mother of American drama." Her short story version of Trifles, "A Jury of Her Peers," reached an unprecedented one million readers in 1917. The play and the story have since been taught in classrooms across America and Trifles is regularly revived...
On a wharf in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where Greenwich Village bohemians gathered in the summer of 1916, Susan Glaspell was inspired by a sensatio...
Qu elle soit appelee meurtriere, assassine ou tueuse, la femme qui commet un homicide elude les categories usuelles: elle derange l ordre social, bouleverse les rapports de forces symboliques et inquiete les dispositifs judiciaires. Cet ouvrage collectif bilingue (francais et anglais) interroge la maniere dont l ecriture ou la reecriture du meurtre au feminin contribue a faconner et a problematiser la memoire collective de ces affaires criminelles qui font figure d exception.
Female murderers often elude firmly established categories as they disrupt the social and symbolic orders...
Qu elle soit appelee meurtriere, assassine ou tueuse, la femme qui commet un homicide elude les categories usuelles: elle derange l ordre social, b...
