Milestones in Staging Contemporary Genders and Sexualities

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-22513-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 296 g

Reihe: Milestones

This introduction to the staging of genders and sexualities across world theatre sets out a broad view of the subject by featuring plays and performance artists that shifted the conversation in their cultural, social, and historical moments.

Designed for weekly use in theatre studies, dramatic literature, or gender and performance studies courses, these ten milestones highlight women and writers of the global majority, supporting and amplifying voices that are key to the field and some that have typically been overlooked. From Paula Vogel, Split Britches, and Young Jean Lee to Werewere Liking, Mahesh Dattani, Yvette Nolan, and more, the chapters place artists’ key works into conversation with one another, structurally offering an intersectional perspective on staging genders and sexualities.

Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social, cultural, political, and artistic development of foundational subject areas.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate Advanced and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rollie, Emily A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Emily A. Rollie

1. The Enduring Legacy of Ntozake Shange and Adrienne Kennedy

Martine Kei Green-Rogers

2. Staging Queer Feminisms and Legacies in North America

Bess Rowen

3. Making Lesbian-Feminist Theatre: Lois Weaver, Tammy Whynot, and the Legacy of Split Britches

Benjamin Gillespie

4. Harnessing the Political Power of Traditional Femininity in the 1980s: David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly and Griselda Gambaro’s Antígona furiosa

Rachel M.E. Wolfe

5. Staging Genders & Centering Women’s Voices in West African Theatres

Heather Jeanne Denyer and Ngozi Udengwu

6. Crossing Borders and Transforming Gender Identities: Mahesh Dattani and Majula Padmanabhan

Jashodhara Sen

7. Staging Indigenous Women’s Voices, Histories, and Power

Yvette Nolan and Emily A. Rollie

8. Agency through Adaptation: MENA Women in Shakespeare’s Sisters, Jogging, and Noura

Nabra Nelson and Marina Johnson

9. Staging and Critiquing Masculinities: Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman and Straight White Men

Ramón Esquivel

10. Refuting Narratives of Newness, Constructing Transgender Community

Nicolas Shannon Savard

Über Autor(innen)

Emily A. Rollie (PhD) is an associate professor of Theatre and affiliate faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Central Washington University, USA.