Book Details
Orange Code:32015
Paperback:241 pages
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1. New Woman (Re)Production in Rachel Crothers’ Alternative Maternities2. Ethnic Anxieties, Postwar Angst, and Maternal Bodies in Philip Kan Gotanda’s The Wash3. Race and the Domestic Threat: Sexing the Mammy in Tony Kushner, Alfred Uhry, and Cheryl West4. Queering the Domestic Diaspora, Enduring Borderlands: Cherr í e Moraga’s Familia de la Frontera
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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.
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