Representations of gender and female subjectivity in contemporary Irish drama by women
By: Mária Kurdi ; with a foreword by Eamonn Jordan
Contributors: Jordan, Eamonn, 1964-
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780773414211
Subjects: English drama; Irish authors; History and criticism; Women authors; Women and literature; History; Gender identity in literature; Women in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The legacy of foremothers and contexts for the development of women's playwriting in Ireland; title: Body politics and dress codes; title: Performance, metatheatre, and carnival; title: Character constellations and female genealogies; title: Storytelling, narrators, and the monologue form; title: Adaptation, rewriting, and intertextuality; title: Space and the trope of the journey.