Performing Gender Violence. Plays by Contemporary American Women Dramatists. Eds Barbara Ozieblo & Noelia Hernando-Real.

While the role of violence in the works of male American playwrights has been widely explored, most notably perhaps in the works of Sam Shepard, the notion of violence against women in plays by female American playwrights has hitherto attracted too little attention. This remarkable volume remedies...

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Argitaratua izan da:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas,
Egile nagusia: Maufort, Marc
Formatua: Article ou chapitre numérique
Hizkuntza:Anglais
Argitaratua: European journal of American studies 2022
Sarrera elektronikoa:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Gaia:While the role of violence in the works of male American playwrights has been widely explored, most notably perhaps in the works of Sam Shepard, the notion of violence against women in plays by female American playwrights has hitherto attracted too little attention. This remarkable volume remedies this lacuna, focusing on selected women playwrights from the past three decades. As such, it expands critical debates about the canon of contemporary feminist theater in the United States. In an as...