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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... space that it is . Black women's issues , their identity formation , are seen as a distinct discourse which do not overlap with ' normal ' feminist dramatic space , thrusting the spaces into contradic- tion as they remain in a state of ...
... space that it is . Black women's issues , their identity formation , are seen as a distinct discourse which do not overlap with ' normal ' feminist dramatic space , thrusting the spaces into contradic- tion as they remain in a state of ...
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... space of The Skriker ( 1994 ) are the young Lily , heavily pregnant , and her friend , Josie , mentally ill . The theatrical space of their everyday world which metamorphoses into an underworld is the domain of the skriker who is non ...
... space of The Skriker ( 1994 ) are the young Lily , heavily pregnant , and her friend , Josie , mentally ill . The theatrical space of their everyday world which metamorphoses into an underworld is the domain of the skriker who is non ...
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... space for women's desire is made visible through its complete absence in this play which won the 1989 Samuel Beckett Thea- tre Award . 22 My Heart's a Suitcase . McIntyre's 1990 piece , My Heart's a Suitcase , has been described as a ...
... space for women's desire is made visible through its complete absence in this play which won the 1989 Samuel Beckett Thea- tre Award . 22 My Heart's a Suitcase . McIntyre's 1990 piece , My Heart's a Suitcase , has been described as a ...
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