Title: Constructing Maternal Performance in Twentieth-Century American Drama
Description: Looking at a century of American theatre, McDaniel investigates how racially-informed notions of motherhood become sites of resistance to social and political hierarchies. (Re)Constructing Maternal Performance in Twentieth-Century Drama locates a broad tradition of 'counter maternities', politically resistant performances that engage essentialist identities. While resituating motherhood as a role not always tied to biological gender, McDaniel employs a methodology informed by cultural, gender, and theatre studies and considers how the construction of mothering as universally women's work obscures additional, marginalizing identities based in race and class. -- Publisher website.
Subjects: American drama, history and criticism, 20th century, Motherhood in literature, Sex role in literature, American drama, History and criticism