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Complicating the female subject : gender, national myths, and genre in Polish women's inter-war drama /

In the 1930s, seven plays by Polish women writers created a flurry of excitement and condemnation as these women dared to question national myths, reinterpret the definition of subject, and subvert genre expectations. This study interrogates the feminism of these shocking dramas.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kot, Joanna, 1959- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Brighton, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2016]
Colección:Polish Studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Women and drama in other western modernisms
  • Inter-war Poland
  • Who were they? A short biographical introduction
  • What are they? Plot summaries of the plays
  • Theorizing the subject : seeing through an essentialist lens
  • Theorizing the subject : possibilities of change
  • The subject vis-à-vis cultural myths
  • Dramatic fissures
  • Inter-war critical reception
  • Conclusion.