Description
| Product ID: | 9781496835918 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Marginalized |
| Subtitle: | Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender |
| Authors: | Author: Casey Kayser |
| Page Count: | 218 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: general, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary companions, book reviews and guides, Gender studies: women and girls, Ethnic studies, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary companions, book reviews & guides, Gender studies: women, Ethnic studies |
| Description: | Drama has received little attention in southern studies, and women playwrights in receive less recognition than their male counterparts. Casey Kayser addresses these gaps by examining the work of southern women playwrights, arguing that representations of the American South on stage are complicated by difficulties of identity, genre, and region. In contrast to other literary genres, drama has received little attention in southern studies, and women playwrights in general receive less recognition than their male counterparts. In Marginalized: Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender, author Casey Kayser addresses these gaps by examining the work of southern women playwrights, making the argument that representations of the American South on stage are complicated by difficulties of identity, genre, and region. Through analysis of the dramatic texts, the rhetoric of reviews of productions, as well as what the playwrights themselves have said about their plays and productions, Kayser delineates these challenges and argues that playwrights draw on various conscious strategies in response. These strategies, evident in the work of such playwrights as Pearl Cleage, Sandra Deer, Lillian Hellman, Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, and Shay Youngblood, provide them with the opportunity to lead audiences to reconsider monolithic understandings of northern and southern regions and, ultimately, create new visions of the South. |
| Imprint Name: | University Press of Mississippi |
| Publisher Name: | University Press of Mississippi |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-08-30 |
