Author : Kym Bird
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773571477
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Book Synopsis Redressing the Past by : Kym Bird
Download or read book Redressing the Past written by Kym Bird and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004-03-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bird argues that the playwrights, their productions, and their texts express the contradictory relations within these forms of feminism: on the one hand they represent women's social and political emancipation and, on the other, they affirm patriarchal structures and the status quo. Implicitly, this study calls into question what traditionally constitutes drama by treating plays written in non-canonical forms, mounted in nonprofessional venues, and published by marginal presses or not at all as important literary, theatrical, and historical documents.