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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... represents the masculine in her actively independent lifestyle and liaison with a woman . Her coldness , reason and ... represented here as something to be celebrated . The freedom from foreign domination and a celebration of the ...
... represents the masculine in her actively independent lifestyle and liaison with a woman . Her coldness , reason and ... represented here as something to be celebrated . The freedom from foreign domination and a celebration of the ...
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... represented Italy in mourning while the volcano at its center symbolized the dormant power in their homeland . It was in Uruguay that the legion first sported the red shirts , obtained from a factory in Montevideo which had intended to ...
... represented Italy in mourning while the volcano at its center symbolized the dormant power in their homeland . It was in Uruguay that the legion first sported the red shirts , obtained from a factory in Montevideo which had intended to ...
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... Representing Men , Arnold , 2003 , p.15 ; Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick , ' Gosh , Boy George , you must be awfully secure in your masculinity ! ' , in Maurice Berger , Brian Wallis and Simon Watson ( eds . ) Constructing Masculinity ...
... Representing Men , Arnold , 2003 , p.15 ; Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick , ' Gosh , Boy George , you must be awfully secure in your masculinity ! ' , in Maurice Berger , Brian Wallis and Simon Watson ( eds . ) Constructing Masculinity ...
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