Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 361 g
Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender
Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 361 g
ISBN: 978-1-4968-3591-8
Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
In contrast to other literary genres, drama has received little attention in southern studies, and women playwrights in general receive less recognition than their male counterparts. In Marginalized: Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender, author Casey Kayser addresses these gaps by examining the work of southern women playwrights, making the argument that representations of the American South on stage are complicated by difficulties of identity, genre, and region.
Through analysis of the dramatic texts, the rhetoric of reviews of productions, as well as what the playwrights themselves have said about their plays and productions, Kayser delineates these challenges and argues that playwrights draw on various conscious strategies in response. These strategies, evident in the work of such playwrights as Pearl Cleage, Sandra Deer, Lillian Hellman, Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, and Shay Youngblood, provide them with the opportunity to lead audiences to reconsider monolithic understandings of northern and southern regions and, ultimately, create new visions of the South.
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- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
