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(M)Other Perspectives: Staging Motherhood in 21st Century North American Theatre & Performance

(M)Other Perspectives: Staging Motherhood in 21st Century North American Theatre & Performance

Deboeck, Lynn
Stratford, Aoise

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

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ISBN10: 1032303115
ISBN13: 9781032303116
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 1 2023
Pages: 282
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This anthology examines maternity in contemporary performance at the intersection of a wide range of topics from nationhood to mental health, queer parenting, embodied dramaturgy, cultural practice, and immigration.

Across the breadth of these themes, we interrogate the cultural implications and politics of how we script, perform, receive, and define mothers, challenging many of the normalizing and patriarchal tropes associated with the mother-as-character. This book includes critical essays examining twenty-first century dramatic literature, first-hand ethnographic accounts of motherhood in practice, interviews, feminist manifestos, and artist reflections. In its deliberately curated variety, this collection seeks to resist homogeneity and offer instead a range of approaches to key questions: what versions of motherhood get staged, and why? And what do dramatic representations tell us about the role of mothers in our own fraught contemporary moment?

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