How Timberlake Wertenbaker Constructs New Forms of Gender in Her History Plays : Exposing the Power Relations Between the Sexes.

Despite the confines of traditional notions of history and gender, Timberlake Wertenbaker uses her history plays to argue that history and gender should be reread to radically challenge these traditional notions. She uses her history plays to construct a new vision. This book discusses seven Timberl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shih, Yi-chin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.
Temas:
Wertenbaker, Timberlake > Criticism and interpretation.
Wertenbaker, Timberlake.
Gender identity in literature.
Identité de genre dans la littérature.
DRAMA > American.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
American Literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Despite the confines of traditional notions of history and gender, Timberlake Wertenbaker uses her history plays to argue that history and gender should be reread to radically challenge these traditional notions. She uses her history plays to construct a new vision. This book discusses seven Timberlake plays from this new perspective of gender, focusing on how gender impacts history, showing the unstable power relations that exist between the sexes.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (317 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780773421868
0773421866

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