Essays and scripts on how mothers are portrayed in the theatre : a neglected frontier of feminist scholarship /
Essays and scripts on how mothers are portrayed in the theatre : a neglected frontier of feminist scholarship /
edited by Beth Osnes and Anna Andes ; with a foreword by Kathryn Moller.
- Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2010.
- 1 online resource (v, 330 pages
Collection consists of two parts: contributions to the discourses of performance scholarship, gender/feminist scholarship, and mother scholarship; and scripts that portray the image of mother and mother perspectives on the stage.
Includes bibliographical references.
ESSAYS AND SCRIPTS ON HOW MOTHERS ARE PORTRAYED IN THE THEATRE: A Neglected Frontier of Feminist Scholarship; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Beth Osnes and Jennifer Popple; Hispanic Mothers on Stage: Women Playwrights Undermining Masculinist Values; Monstrous Girls and Their Monstrous Mothers; Italian Mammas and Suffering Madonnas: The Strategic Deployment of Maternal Stereotypes in theTheatre of Franca Rame; Motherhood Displaced: Rachel Crothers' The Three of Us and A Man's World. The Abject of My Affection: The Erotics of Stepmotherhood in Sarah Kane's Phaedra's Love and the Wooster Group's To You, The Birdie (Phedre)""She watches us watching her"": The Theatre of Maternity and the Performance of Maternal Failure in O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night; Not So Sainted: Mothers on the Contemporary Irish Stage; What Kind of Mother Are You? Catholic Mothers in Contemporary American Drama; Julie and Manta Rose: The Musical Theatre Mother; The Mother Load: A One-woman Theatrical Performance; scenes from afterbirth: A One-woman Poetry Slam/ HipHop Performance.
This collection examines the nexus of mothering, feminism, and theatre. The work examines the portrayals of mothers in literature and on the performance stage, and makes a contribution to studies in dramatic literature, women?s studies, feminist theory, and theatre history.
English.
0773430210 (electronic bk.) 9780773430211 (electronic bk.)
1900-1999
Drama--History and criticism.--20th century
Drama--Women authors--History and criticism.
Mothers in literature.
Motherhood in literature.
Feminism and literature.
Women and literature.
Mothers--Drama.
Motherhood--Drama.
Écrits de femmes--Histoire et critique.
Mères dans la littérature.
Maternité dans la littérature.
Femmes et littérature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Literary.
Drama.
Drama--Women authors.
Feminism and literature.
Motherhood.
Motherhood in literature.
Mothers.
Mothers in literature.
Women and literature.
Music, Dance, Drama & Film.
Drama.
Electronic books.
7
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Drama.
PN1650.M68 / E87 2010
809.2/935252
Collection consists of two parts: contributions to the discourses of performance scholarship, gender/feminist scholarship, and mother scholarship; and scripts that portray the image of mother and mother perspectives on the stage.
Includes bibliographical references.
ESSAYS AND SCRIPTS ON HOW MOTHERS ARE PORTRAYED IN THE THEATRE: A Neglected Frontier of Feminist Scholarship; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Beth Osnes and Jennifer Popple; Hispanic Mothers on Stage: Women Playwrights Undermining Masculinist Values; Monstrous Girls and Their Monstrous Mothers; Italian Mammas and Suffering Madonnas: The Strategic Deployment of Maternal Stereotypes in theTheatre of Franca Rame; Motherhood Displaced: Rachel Crothers' The Three of Us and A Man's World. The Abject of My Affection: The Erotics of Stepmotherhood in Sarah Kane's Phaedra's Love and the Wooster Group's To You, The Birdie (Phedre)""She watches us watching her"": The Theatre of Maternity and the Performance of Maternal Failure in O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night; Not So Sainted: Mothers on the Contemporary Irish Stage; What Kind of Mother Are You? Catholic Mothers in Contemporary American Drama; Julie and Manta Rose: The Musical Theatre Mother; The Mother Load: A One-woman Theatrical Performance; scenes from afterbirth: A One-woman Poetry Slam/ HipHop Performance.
This collection examines the nexus of mothering, feminism, and theatre. The work examines the portrayals of mothers in literature and on the performance stage, and makes a contribution to studies in dramatic literature, women?s studies, feminist theory, and theatre history.
English.
0773430210 (electronic bk.) 9780773430211 (electronic bk.)
1900-1999
Drama--History and criticism.--20th century
Drama--Women authors--History and criticism.
Mothers in literature.
Motherhood in literature.
Feminism and literature.
Women and literature.
Mothers--Drama.
Motherhood--Drama.
Écrits de femmes--Histoire et critique.
Mères dans la littérature.
Maternité dans la littérature.
Femmes et littérature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Literary.
Drama.
Drama--Women authors.
Feminism and literature.
Motherhood.
Motherhood in literature.
Mothers.
Mothers in literature.
Women and literature.
Music, Dance, Drama & Film.
Drama.
Electronic books.
7
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Drama.
PN1650.M68 / E87 2010
809.2/935252