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(Re)Constructing Maternal Performance in Twentieth-Century American Drama

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. L. Bailey McDaniel
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Part of the book series: What is Theatre? (WHATT)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Your Mother? Race, Sex, Class, and Essential Maternity

    • L. Bailey McDaniel
    Pages 1-15

  3. New Woman (Re)Production in Rachel Crothers’ Alternative Maternities

    • L. Bailey McDaniel
    Pages 17-51

  4. Ethnic Anxieties, Postwar Angst, and Maternal Bodies in Philip Kan Gotanda’s The Wash

    • L. Bailey McDaniel
    Pages 53-91

  5. Race and the Domestic Threat: Sexing the Mammy in Tony Kushner, Alfred Uhry, and Cheryl West

    • L. Bailey McDaniel
    Pages 93-119

  6. Queering the Domestic Diaspora, Enduring Borderlands: Cherríe Moraga’s Familia de la Frontera

    • L. Bailey McDaniel
    Pages 121-151

  7. Conclusion Nurturing Performance, Raising Questions

    • L. Bailey McDaniel
    Pages 153-168

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 169-227
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Looking at a century of American theatre, McDaniel investigates how race-based notions of maternal performance become sites of resistance to cultural and political hierarchies. This book considers how the construction of mothering as universally women's work obscures additional, equally constructed subdivisions based in race and class.

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L. Bailey McDaniel is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Oakland University, USA.

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