(Re) Constructing Maternal Performance in Twentieth-Century American Drama
Looking at a century of American theatre, McDaniel investigates how race-based notions of maternal performance become sites of resistance to cultural and political hierarchies. This book considers how the construction of mothering as universally women's w
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10.1057/9781137299574 - (Re)Constructing Maternal Performance in Twentieth-Century American Drama, L. Bailey McDaniel
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(Re)Constructing Maternal Performance in Twentieth-Century American Drama
WHAT IS THEATRE?
Given the changing nature of audiences, entertainment, and media, the role of theatre in twenty-first century culture is changing. The WHAT IS THEATRE? series brings new and innovative work in literary, cultural, and dramatic criticism into conversation with established theatre texts and trends, in order to offer fresh interpretation and highlight new or undervalued artists, works, and trends. ANN C. HALL has published widely in the area of theatre and film studies, is president of the Harold Pinter Society, and is an active member in the Modern Language Association. In addition to her book A Kind of Alaska: Women in the Plays of O’Neill, Pinter, and Shepard, she has edited a collection of essays, Making the Stage: Essays on Theatre, Drama, and Performance and a book on the various stage, film, print, and television versions of Gaston Leroux’s Phantom of the Opera.
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10.1057/9781137299574 - (Re)Constructing Maternal Performance in Twentieth-Century American Drama, L. Bailey McDaniel
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Edited by Ann C. Hall
L. BAILEY MCDANIEL
10.1057/9781137299574 - (Re)Constructing Maternal Performance in Twentieth-Century American Drama, L. Bailey McDaniel
Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to New York University - Waldmann Dental Library - PalgraveConnect - 2015-08-02
(Re)Constructing Maternal Performance in Twentieth-Century American Drama
(RE)CONSTRUCTING MATERNAL PERFORMANCE IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN DRAMA Copyright © L. Bailey McDaniel, 2013. First published in 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan®
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