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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Page 43
... issues with which the English stage has a great difficulty in dealing : the issues of race and colonial relations . " 41 40 , 42 39 The colonial machine dehumanizes oppressor and oppressed simultane- ously . * ' Feminizing the land is a ...
... issues with which the English stage has a great difficulty in dealing : the issues of race and colonial relations . " 41 40 , 42 39 The colonial machine dehumanizes oppressor and oppressed simultane- ously . * ' Feminizing the land is a ...
Page 52
... issues as separate from those of the general populace or , as Gillian Hanna put it , ' When men do something they speak for the human race , when women do the same thing it goes under the heading " Special Inter- est " . 71 Gillian ...
... issues as separate from those of the general populace or , as Gillian Hanna put it , ' When men do something they speak for the human race , when women do the same thing it goes under the heading " Special Inter- est " . 71 Gillian ...
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... issues in this re - visioning of history es- sential to her alternative perspective . In the gamut of her work she manages to elicit laughter in the most critical or pensive situations making for a ca- thartic effect , and here it cuts ...
... issues in this re - visioning of history es- sential to her alternative perspective . In the gamut of her work she manages to elicit laughter in the most critical or pensive situations making for a ca- thartic effect , and here it cuts ...
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