Southern women playwrights : new essays in literary history and criticism
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Southern women playwrights : new essays in literary history and criticism
University of Alabama Press, c2002
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- The current state of scholarship on southern women playwrights / Robert L. McDonald
- "Let the people sing!" : Zora Neale Hurston and the dream of a negro theater / John Lowe
- These four : Hellman's roots are showing / Theresa R. Mooney
- Carson McCullers, Lillian Smith, and the politics of broadway / Judith Giblin James
- The delayed entrance of Lily Mae Jenkins : queer identity, gender ambiguity, and southern ambivalence in Carson McCullers's / The member of the Wedding Betty E. McKinnie and Carlos L. Dews
- "Controversy only means disagreement" : Alice Childress's active drama / Donna Lisker
- Role-ing on the river : actors theatre of louisville and the southern woman playwright / Elizabeth S. Bell
- Precursor and protégé : Lillian Hellman and Marsha Norman / Sally Burke
- "Un-ruling" the woman : comedy and the plays of Beth Henley and Rebecca Gilman / Janet L. Gupton
- Pseudonymy and identity politics : exploring "Jane Martin" / J. Ellen Gainor
- Dialectic and the drama of Naomi Wallace / Claudia Barnett
- Amparo Garcia and the eyes of tejas : Texas community through Mexicana eyes / Carolyn Roark
- Reconfiguring history : migration, memory, and (re)membering in Suzan - Lori Parks's plays / Elizabeth Brown-Guillory
- The memory palace in Paula Vogel's plays / Alan Shepard and Mary Lamb
- Postmodern monologues in Regina Porter's / Tripping through the car house, Mary Resing
- Southern women playwrights and the Atlanta hub : home is the place where you go / Linda Rohrer Paige
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Coeditors Robert McDonald and Linda Rohrer Paige attribute the neglect of southern women playwrights in scholarly criticism to ""deep historical prejudices"" against drama itself and against women artists in general, especially in the South. Their call for critical awareness is answered by the 15 essays they include in Southern Women Playwrights, considerations of the creative work of universally acclaimed playwrights such as Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, and Lillian Hellman (the so-called ""Trinity"") in addition to that of less-studied playwrights, including Zora Neale Hurston, Carson McCullers, Alice Childress, Naomi Wallace, Amparo Garcia, Paula Vogel, and Regina Porter. This collection springs from a series of associated questions regarding the literary and theatrical heritage of the southern woman playwright, the unique ways in which southern women have approached the conventional modes of comedy and tragedy, and the ways in which the South, its types and stereotypes, its peculiarities, its traditions - both literary and cultural - figure in these women's plays. Especially relevant to these questions are essays on Lillian Hellman, who resisted the label ""southern writer,"" and Carson McCullers, who never attempted to ignore her southernness. This book begins by recovering little-known or unknown episodes in the history of southern drama and by examining the ways plays assumed importance in the lives of southern women in the early 20th century. It concludes with a look at one of the most vibrant, diverse theatre scenes outside New York today - Atlanta.
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