(Re)Constructing Maternal Performance in Twentieth-Century American Drama
Author:   L. Bailey McDaniel
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9781137299567


Pages:   227
Publication Date:   01 October 2013
Format:   Hardback
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(Re)Constructing Maternal Performance in Twentieth-Century American Drama


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Looking at a century of American theatre, McDaniel investigates how race-based notions of maternal performance become sites of resistance to cultural and political hierarchies. This book considers how the construction of mothering as universally women's work obscures additional, equally constructed subdivisions based in race and class.

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Author:   L. Bailey McDaniel
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   4.041kg
ISBN:  

9781137299567


ISBN 10:   1137299568
Pages:   227
Publication Date:   01 October 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother? Race, Sex, Class and ""Essential"" Maternity 1. New Woman (Re)Production: Progressive Era Eugenics in Rachel Crothers' ""Feminist"" Mother 2. Ethnic Anxieties, Post-Modern Angst, and Maternal Bodies in Philip Kan Gotanda's The Wash and Fish Head Soup 3. Race and the ""Domestic"" Threat: Sexing the Mammy in Tony Kushner, Alfred Uhry, and Cheryl West 4. Queering the Domestic Diaspora, ""Enduring"" Borderlands: Cherríe Moraga's Familia de la Frontera Conclusion: Nurturing Performance, Raising Questions"

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L. Bailey McDaniel is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Oakland University, USA.

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