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.
Edited by:
Emily A. Rollie
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781032225159
ISBN 10: 1032225157
Series: Milestones
Pages: 214
Publication Date: 27 May 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
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
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.
