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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That closure lay in disclosure ' ; whereas Churchill's disclosure ( that Marlene is Angie's mother ) leads to more questions [ in an ending — ' frightening ' — which leads back to the first act and Pope Joan's cry ' terrorem ' . ] ...
That closure lay in disclosure ' ; whereas Churchill's disclosure ( that Marlene is Angie's mother ) leads to more questions [ in an ending — ' frightening ' — which leads back to the first act and Pope Joan's cry ' terrorem ' . ] ...
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Cathy ( to her mother ) : They're coming to tea and we've got to have trifle . Not trifle you make , trifle out of a packet . And you've got to wear a skirt . And tights . ( II , ii ) ' Cathy is played by a man , partly as a simple ...
Cathy ( to her mother ) : They're coming to tea and we've got to have trifle . Not trifle you make , trifle out of a packet . And you've got to wear a skirt . And tights . ( II , ii ) ' Cathy is played by a man , partly as a simple ...
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The three women seem like pawns in a masculinist chess game and they appear destined to live their lives patterned after the existence of their parents : ' My mother spent her life listening . My father was picked up four times ' .
The three women seem like pawns in a masculinist chess game and they appear destined to live their lives patterned after the existence of their parents : ' My mother spent her life listening . My father was picked up four times ' .
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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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