**Missing**: Staging Motherhood in 21st Century North American Theatre & Performance (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)

Synopsis

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 how do dramatic representations tell us about the role of mothers in our own fraught contemporary moment? This collection will be of great interest to those in academia who are teaching, researching, or studying in the fields of Theatre and Performance Studies, American Studies, and Feminist and Gender Studies.

Copyright:

2023

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781000887488

Related ISBNs:

9781032303116, 9781032303192, 9781003304463

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

05/31/23

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Aoise Stratford and Lynn Deboeck

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family, Drama, Plays and Theater

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Lynn Deboeck

Edited by:

Aoise Stratford