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(Re)constructing maternal performance in twentieth-century American drama /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	(Re)constructing maternal performance in twentieth-century American drama // by L. Bailey McDaniel.
remainder title:	Reconstructing maternal performance in twentieth-century American drama
Author:	McDaniel, L. Bailey,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	American drama - History and criticism. - 20th century -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137299574
ISBN:	9781137299574 (electronic bk.)

(Re)constructing maternal performance in twentieth-century American drama /
McDaniel, L. Bailey,1968-

(Re)constructing maternal performance in twentieth-century American drama /Reconstructing maternal performance in twentieth-century American dramaby L. Bailey McDaniel. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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: Cherr�ie Moraga's Familia de la frontera -- Conclusion: Nurturing performance, raising questions.

Looking at a century of American theatre, McDaniel investigates how racially-informed notions of motherhood become sites of resistance to social and political hierarchies. (Re)Constructing Maternal Performance in Twentieth-Century Drama locates a broad tradition of 'counter maternities', politically resistant performances that engage essentialist identities. While resituating motherhood as a role not always tied to biological gender, McDaniel employs a methodology informed by cultural, gender, and theatre studies and considers how the construction of mothering as universally women's work obscures additional, marginalizing identities based in race and class.

ISBN: 9781137299574 (electronic bk.)

Source: 647407Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

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American drama
--History and criticism.--20th centuryIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PS338.M66 / M33 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 812/.50935252

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