Overview
Seven inter-war plays by Polish women writers created a flurry of excitement and condemnation when they appeared, yet today they are almost forgotten. This groundbreaking study interrogates the feminism of these plays and their authors, who dared to question national myths, subvert genre expectations, and reinterpret definitions of subjectivity, anticipating the work of numerous women playwrights in post-1989 Poland. Synthesizing a variety of theoretical perspectives, the author produces a nuanced reading of each work and of the group as a whole. Both texts and the innovative synthetic approach will interest scholars of Polish literature, of drama, and of gender studies.
Full Product Details
Author: Joanna Kot
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Imprint: Academic Studies Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.580kg
ISBN: 9781618115423
ISBN 10: 1618115421
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 19 January 2017
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This is a daring and thought-provoking book for all theater lovers. Joann Kot's comprehensive study revives archival theater scripts and forgotten plays of Poland's inter-war women's drama in a way that energizes and delights. Reading her analysis makes us rethink the mechanisms of theater and the structures of domination at the same time. This ostensibly modest rediscovery, conducted in a bi-lingual format proposed by Kot, also reveals the rich suppressed heritage behind Polish women's voices today asserting clearly that the country's national stage history needs to be seen anew, in a brighter and fuller light. --Elwira M. Grossman (University of Glasgow)
This is a daring and thought-provoking book for all theater lovers. Joanna Kot's comprehensive study revives archival theater scripts and forgotten plays of Poland's inter-war women's drama in a way that energizes and delights. Reading her analysis makes us rethink the mechanisms of theater and the structures of domination at the same time. This ostensibly modest rediscovery, conducted in a bi-lingual format proposed by Kot, also reveals the rich suppressed heritage behind Polish women's voices today asserting clearly that the country's national stage history needs to be seen anew, in a brighter and fuller light. --Elwira M. Grossman, University of Glasgow
Author Information
Professor of Polish and Russian at Northern Illinois University, Joanna Kot has written extensively on Polish and Russian modernist drama, including the monograph Distance Manipulation: The Russian Modernist Search for a New Drama. Her recent work focuses on 1930s Polish women playwrights as important predecessors to contemporary feminist drama.
