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Cover image for book (Re)Constructing Maternal Performance in Twentieth-Century American Drama

(Re)Constructing Maternal Performance in Twentieth-Century American Drama

By:L. Bailey McDaniel
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137299567
eText ISBN:9781137299574
Edition:0
Copyright:2013
Format:Reflowable

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Looking at a century of American theatre, McDaniel investigates how race-based notions of maternal performance become sites of resistance to cultural and political hierarchies. This book considers how the construction of mothering as universally women's work obscures additional, equally constructed subdivisions based in race and class.