(Re)constructing maternal performance in twentieth-century American drama / L. Bailey McDaniel.

• Introduction: If it's not one thing, it's your mother: race, sex, class and "essential" maternity -- New woman (re)production: progressive era eugenics in Rachel Crothers' "feminist" mother -- Ethnic anxieties, post-modern angst, and maternal bodies in Philip Kan Gotanda's The wash and fish head soup -- Race and the "domestic" threat: sexing the Mammy in Tony Kushner, Alfred Uhry, and Cheryl West -- Queering the domestic diaspora, "enduring" borderlands: Cherríe Moraga's Familia de la frontera -- Conclusion: Nurturing performance, raising questions.

Ämnesord

Amerikansk dramatik  (sao)

Queerfeminism  (sao)

Feminism och teater  (sao)

Teater och samhälle  (sao)

American drama  (LCSH)

Theater and society  (LCSH)

Feminism and theater  (LCSH)

Personnamn

Crothers, Rachel (sidor)

Gotanda, Philip Kan (sidor)

Kushner, Tony, 1956-

Uhry, Alfred (sidor)

West, Cheryl (sidor)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Geq.02 Litteraturhistoria: amerikansk: dramatik

Klassifikation

812.50935252 (DDC)

Geq.02 (kssb/8)