Anxious Masculinity in the Drama of Arthur Miller and Beyond: Salesmen, Sluggers, and Big Daddies

Author:   Claire Gleitman (Ithaca College, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781350271111


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   16 June 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Staunchly homosocial, vaguely or overtly misogynistic, anxiously homophobic—this study follows the male breadwinner as he is incarnated in Arthur Miller’s most celebrated plays and as he resurfaces in different guises throughout American drama, from the 1950s to the present. Anxious Masculinity offers a compelling analysis of gender dynamics and the legacy of this figure as he stalks through the works of other American dramatists, and argues that the gendered anxieties exhibited by their characters are the very ones invoked with such success by Donald Trump. Claire Gleitman examines this figure in the plays of Miller and Tennessee Williams, as well as later 20th-century writers Lorraine Hansberry, August Wilson, and Sam Shepard, who reposition him in more racially and economically marginalized settings. He reappears in the more recent work of playwrights Tony Kushner, Paula Vogel, and collaborators Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori, who shift their focus to the next generation, which seeks to escape his clutches and forge new, often gleefully queer identities. The final chapter concerns contemporary Black dramatists Suzan Lori-Parks, Jackie Sibblies Drury, and Jeremy O. Harris, whose plays move us from anxious masculinity to anxious whiteness and speak directly to the current moment.

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Author:   Claire Gleitman (Ithaca College, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Methuen Drama
Dimensions:   Width: 14.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.80cm
Weight:   0.360kg
ISBN:  

9781350271111


ISBN 10:   135027111
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   16 June 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: The Prison-House of Gender 1. Strudel and the Single Man: All My Sons and Death of a Salesman 2. Witchcraft and the Weird: The Crucible and A View from the Bridge 3. Performing White Male Heteronormativity: A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 4. Playing Ball on the Margins: Raisin in the Sun, Fences, Curse of the Starving Class 5. Queering a New Generation: Angels in America, How I Learned to Drive, Fun Home 6. Cakewalks and the White Gaze: Topdog/Underdog, Fairview, Slave Play Notes References Index

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By connecting post-World War Two American containment to current polarizing gender politics and Trumpism, this book offers historical insight and current social commentary to illustrate how American Drama continuously investigates and critiques the society for which it has been written. An excellent study of drama, gender, race and America itself. * Dr. Susan Abbotson, Rhode Island College, USA *


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Claire Gleitman is Professor of Dramatic Literature and Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences at Ithaca College, USA. She is the editor of All My Sons (Methuen Drama, 2022). At Ithaca College, she is also the director and co-founder of the On the Verge play-reading series and former coordinator of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies.

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