Re constructing Maternal Performance in Twentieth Century American - Dram

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.

List 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

About the author

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

Summary

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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Product details

• Authors: B. McDaniel, L Bailey McDaniel, L. Bailey McDaniel
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2013
• EAN: 9781349452828
• ISBN: 978-1-349-45282-8
• No. of pages: 227
• Series: What is Theatre?; What is Theatre?
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Women's and gender studies; Theater, B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Performing Arts, The arts: general issues, Arts, Society & culture: general, Theatre Studies, Media and Communication, Culture—Study and teaching, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Theatre and Performance Arts, Theater—History, Theatre History, Palgrave Theatre & Performance Collection, Theatre and Performance Studies, America;drama;theatre;women