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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... writing of the plays . She founded the Women's Theatre Group in 1971 , the first theatre company organized by women to produce plays written by women , and was involved in setting up the first- ever season of plays by women at the ...
... writing of the plays . She founded the Women's Theatre Group in 1971 , the first theatre company organized by women to produce plays written by women , and was involved in setting up the first- ever season of plays by women at the ...
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... writing as she undercuts mythology , heterosexism and ' woman ' thereby subverting the dominant ideology . I think the phrase ' feminist writer ' is absolutely meaningless because it implies polemic , and polemic is about changing ...
... writing as she undercuts mythology , heterosexism and ' woman ' thereby subverting the dominant ideology . I think the phrase ' feminist writer ' is absolutely meaningless because it implies polemic , and polemic is about changing ...
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... writing is a gendered phenomenon . If the lineage of English drama is male it is because the writers have all been ... writing which is always female / feminist and on the side of women , penned , undeniably , by a woman for women . She ...
... writing is a gendered phenomenon . If the lineage of English drama is male it is because the writers have all been ... writing which is always female / feminist and on the side of women , penned , undeniably , by a woman for women . She ...
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