Breaking the Bounds: British Feminist Dramatists Writing in the Mainstream Since C. 1980Breaking the Bounds focuses on second-wave feminism as a rupture in an unbroken episteme of Western patriarchy analyzed with regard to British dramatic discourse. The theoretical framework is a genealogy of patriarchy deploying and developing Foucault's ideas on discourse to apply to a deconstruction of Western patriarchy. An analysis of feminist drama texts is used to support the argument that Western patriarchy consists of one unbroken episteme as the patriarchal impulse substrates the epistemological breaks indicated by Foucault. The theoretical text speaks of the twentieth-century feminist rupture from patriarchy, analyzing in detail the texts of five mainstream feminist dramatists who have successfully effected an intervention in the British grand récit of undeniably male dramatic discourse. |
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When a black actor appears in a white role , cultural dominance and systems of representation are subverted and destabilized . However , a white actor enacting a black role doubly reinscribes dominant colonial ideology which negates the ...
When a black actor appears in a white role , cultural dominance and systems of representation are subverted and destabilized . However , a white actor enacting a black role doubly reinscribes dominant colonial ideology which negates the ...
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Daniels manages to do this well within the dominant discourse of the mainstream , and her strategy — the reappropriation of a traditional genre , melodrama — can be seen as ' camp ' if a approached through Meyer .
Daniels manages to do this well within the dominant discourse of the mainstream , and her strategy — the reappropriation of a traditional genre , melodrama — can be seen as ' camp ' if a approached through Meyer .
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In the breaking away there is almost always a citation , a reappropriation , a reformulation , as the old dominant discourse feeds into and helps formulate the new , which will in turn serve as an early model for , in this case ...
In the breaking away there is almost always a citation , a reappropriation , a reformulation , as the old dominant discourse feeds into and helps formulate the new , which will in turn serve as an early model for , in this case ...
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| Title | Breaking the Bounds: British Feminist Dramatists Writing in the Mainstream Since C. 1980 Volume 31 of American University Studies Volume 31 of American university studies: Theatre arts, ISSN 0899-9880 |
| Author | Dimple Godiwala |
| Publisher | P. Lang, 2003 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 3 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0820461350, 9780820461359 |
| Length | 225 pages |
| Subjects | › › Drama / American / General Drama / Women Authors Literary Criticism / Drama Literary Criticism / Women Authors Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory |
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