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Gender and Genre

Essays on David Mamet

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  • © 2001

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  1. Christopher C. Hudgins
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  2. Leslie Kane
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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Christopher C. Hudgins, Leslie Kane
    Pages 1-14

  3. Mamet’s Three Children’s Plays: Where the Wilder Things Are

    • Thomas P. Adler
    Pages 15-26

  4. Plowing the Buffalo, Fucking the Fruits: (M)Others in American Buffalo and Speed-the-Plow

    • Janet V. Haedicke
    Pages 27-40

  5. Disguise in Love: Gender and Desire in House of Games and Speed-the-Plow

    • Steven Price
    Pages 41-59

  6. Prophecy and Parody in Edmond

    • Richard Brucher
    Pages 61-75

  7. Demotic Male Desire and Female Subjectivity in David Mamet: The Split Space of the Women of Edmond

    • Imtiaz Habib
    Pages 77-94

  8. Oleanna, or, the Play of Pedagogy

    • Robert Skloot
    Pages 95-107

  9. A Few Good Men: Collusion and Violence in Oleanna

    • Kellie Bean
    Pages 109-123

  10. Women on the Verge, Unite!

    • Karen C. Blansfield
    Pages 125-142

  11. “It’s the Way that You are With Your Children”: The Matriarchal Figure in Mamet’s Late Work

    • Leslie Kane
    Pages 143-173

  12. Reinscribing the “Fairy”: The Knife and the Mystification of Male Mythology in the Cryptogram

    • Linda Dorff
    Pages 175-190

  13. Mamet’s Novelistic Voice

    • Ilkka Joki
    Pages 191-208

  14. “A Small Price to Pay”: Superman, Metafamily, and Hero in David Mamet’s Oedipal House of Games

    • Christopher C. Hudgins
    Pages 209-233

  15. Man Without a Gun: Mamet, Masculinity, and Mystification

    • Diane M. Borden
    Pages 235-254

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 255-265
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Critical and popular debate about Mamet's work often centers on whether we should read his misogynist, unloving characters as reflecting his own misogyny or should recognize a Mametian irony in his memorable depictions. Irony is intimately related to issues of genre and to audience expectations. In turn, Mamet's celebrity colors responses to his work. The essays in this collection approach these controversial topics of gender and genre with verve, ranging from those which cast Mamet as a macho misogynist to those which understand his work as deeply ironic and even feminist. Topics include plays from the early Sexual Perversity in Chicago to the recent Jolly , two films, House of Games and Homicide , and Mamet's first novel, The Village.

About the authors

THOMAS P. ADLER Purdue University KELLIE BEAN Marshall University KAREN C. BLANSFIELD University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill DIANE M. BORDEN University of the Pacific RICHARD BRUCHER University of Maine LINDA DORFF University of Houston IMTIAZ HABIB Old Dominion University ILKKA JOKI University of Brussels JANET V. HAEDICKE Northeast Louisiana University STEVEN PRICE University of Wales, Bangor ROBERT SKLOOT University of Wisconsin, Madison

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