Performing Gender Violence. Plays by Contemporary American Women Dramatists. Eds Barbara Ozieblo & Noelia Hernando-Real.
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29 août 2022
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Marc Maufort, « Performing Gender Violence. Plays by Contemporary American Women Dramatists. Eds Barbara Ozieblo & Noelia Hernando-Real. », European journal of American studies, ID : 10.4000/ejas.9858
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While the role of violence in the works of male American playwrights has been widely explored, most notably perhaps in the works of Sam Shepard, the notion of violence against women in plays by female American playwrights has hitherto attracted too little attention. This remarkable volume remedies this lacuna, focusing on selected women playwrights from the past three decades. As such, it expands critical debates about the canon of contemporary feminist theater in the United States. In an ast...