How Timberlake Wertenbaker Constructs New Forms of Gender in Her History Plays : Exposing the Power Relations Between the Sexes.

By:

Shih, Yi-chin

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (317 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780773421868
0773421866

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: How Timberlake Wertenbaker Constructs New Forms of Gender in Her History Plays : Exposing the Power Relations Between the Sexes.DDC classification:

812.54

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PS3573.E74 Z86 2012

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Contents:

HOW TIMBERLAKE WERTENBAKER CONSTRUCTS NEW FORMS OF GENDER IN HER HISTORY PLAYS: Exposing the Power Relations Between the Sexes; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chapter One -- Introduction; Chapter Two -- History as Narrative: The Possibility of Writing Gender into History; Chapter Three -- Rewriting History: Gender in Wertenbaker's History Plays; Chapter Four -- Retelling History: Gender in Wertenbaker's Oral History Plays; Chapter Five -- Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Summary: Despite the confines of traditional notions of history and gender, Timberlake Wertenbaker uses her history plays to argue that history and gender should be reread to radically challenge these traditional notions. She uses her history plays to construct a new vision. This book discusses seven Timberlake plays from this new perspective of gender, focusing on how gender impacts history, showing the unstable power relations that exist between the sexes.

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Despite the confines of traditional notions of history and gender, Timberlake Wertenbaker uses her history plays to argue that history and gender should be reread to radically challenge these traditional notions. She uses her history plays to construct a new vision. This book discusses seven Timberlake plays from this new perspective of gender, focusing on how gender impacts history, showing the unstable power relations that exist between the sexes.