Performing Gender Violence: Plays by Contemporary American Women Dramatists

Ozieblo, B.; Hernando-Real, N.

Violence against women in plays bywomen has earned little mention. This revolutionary collection fills that gap, focusing on plays by American women dramatists, written in the last thirty years, that deal with different forms of gender violence. Each author discusses specific manifestations of violence in carefully selected plays: psychological, familial, war-time, and social injustice. This book encompasses the theatrical devices used to represent violence on the stage in an age of virtual, immediate reality as much as the problematics of gender violence in modern society.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2011-12-15

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230339958

DOI: 10.1057/9781137010568

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 198