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Understanding Marsha Norman /
"Perhaps prompted by an interviewer's question (Beattie 292), American playwright Marsha Norman has described 'trapped girls' as an important theme of her work, one that stems from her own childhood experiences growing up in a fundamentalist Christian family: 'I saw myself a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia, South Carolina :
The University of South Carolina Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Understanding contemporary American literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Understanding Marsha Norman
- "All the help she can stand" : the transformative power of women's friendship in Getting out
- Early plays : Third and Oak, Circus valentine, and Traveler in the dark
- "Firsthand knowledge of how suicides feel" : 'night, Mother
- Vanishing children : The fortune teller
- Rewriting the western tradition : The holdup, Sarah and Abraham, and Loving Daniel Boone
- "I heard someone crying" : The secret garden
- "Sex just doesn't work" : Trudy Blue, 140, and Last dance
- Writing for a world of spectators : television work
- Later musicals : The red shoes, The color purple, The trumpet of the swan, The Master Butcher's Singing Club, and The bridges of Madison County.