Queer Mythologies: The Original Stageplays of Pam GemsThis book on Gems has a thesis or a 'backbone' which elicits the title Queer Mythologies. Pam Gems has written over 25 plays, and has not had adequate detailed analysis of her plays to date. She is a popular playwright produced often at the West End and has a widespread appeal by being on the pulse of cultural iconology. Gems writes strong central characters for both male and female actors, and often writes almost cinematically, with time shifts in a non-linear narrativization. Her characters are metaphors for contemporary women and men and she often herstoricizes, thus righting the balance of dramatic history by creating parts for women in British drama. Her dramaturgy brings to the mainstream theatre the identities and subcultures of class, race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality making her plays queer mythologies. |
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... forces , herding contradictions into a single battlefield . - Hélène Cixous , ' The Laugh of the Medusa ' Western woman is a queer category . ' Having been elided from the British stage terms of the production of drama , today's Woman ...
... forces , herding contradictions into a single battlefield . - Hélène Cixous , ' The Laugh of the Medusa ' Western woman is a queer category . ' Having been elided from the British stage terms of the production of drama , today's Woman ...
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... force of free - form desire is rejected as they achieve their status as the Deleuzean schizos emerging at the end - of - history as the principle of freedom in permanent revolution . As Holland points out , schizophrenia [ Deleuze's ...
... force of free - form desire is rejected as they achieve their status as the Deleuzean schizos emerging at the end - of - history as the principle of freedom in permanent revolution . As Holland points out , schizophrenia [ Deleuze's ...
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... force of volunteers , his mastery of the techniques of guerilla warfare , his opposition to Brazilian and Argentinean imperialism , and his victories in the battles of Cerro and Sant'Antonio in 1846 not only assured the freedom of ...
... force of volunteers , his mastery of the techniques of guerilla warfare , his opposition to Brazilian and Argentinean imperialism , and his victories in the battles of Cerro and Sant'Antonio in 1846 not only assured the freedom of ...
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