(M)Other perspectives : staging motherhood in 21st century North American theatre & performance /: staging motherhood in 21st century North American theatre & performance. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Lynn Deboeck, Aoise Stratford.
• Editors: Deboeck, Lynn; Stratford, Aoise
• Contents: Acknowledgements; Contributors Introduction: Mothers on Stage, in the House, and Behind the Scenes; AOISE STRATFORD AND LYNN DEBOECK PART ONE ; Rescripting Reproduction and the Pregnant Body 1 Illuminating Solidarity: Performing Mothering at the Intersections of Identities as Sexual and Reproductive Justice Activism; ROBERTA SUZETTE HUNTE 2 Queer Mothering: “You Don’t Need to Emerge from Nothing”; MICHELLE HAYFORD 3 Embodied Dramaturgy: Pregnancy and Motherhood in Grounded and Gloria; SARAH JOHNSON 4 “You Just Know”: The Currency of Maternity and Fertility Ego in Expecting Isabel ; LYNN DEBOECK 5 Representations of (Non) Choice: Birthmother Narratives from Marginalized Mothers in Contemporary Theatre; TAMAR NEUMANN PART TWO ; Maternal/Theatrical Legacies 6 The Persistent Anxiety over Absent Mothers in Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2; ALISON WALLS 7 Performing Natural, Unnatural, Supernatural, and Uncanny Motherhood in Snow in Midsummer by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig; DAPHNE P. LEI 8 The Monstrous Maternal in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Red Letter Plays; AOISE STRATFORD 9 Constructing the Maternal: Immigrant Motherhood in Heather Raffo’s Noura; SUZI ELNAGGAR 10 Mourning Mothers: Historicizing Madness as Deviant Motherhood in Next to Normal; LINDSEY R. BARR PART THREE; Motherhood/Nationhood 11 Negotiating Mothers: Exploring the Maternal Landscape in Danai Gurira’s Eclipsed; L. BAILEY MCDANIEL 12 Staging Undocumented Motherhood in Quiara Alegría Hudes and Erin McKeown’s Miss You Like Hell; DIANA BENEA 13 Laboring for Their Country: Mother-Soldiers on the Contemporary American Stage; JACQUELINE VISKUP 14 Motherhood/Motherland and the Creation of a Citizen; MELISSA FLOWER GLADNEY 15 The Ties that Bind: Motherhood, Veiling, and Diasporic Subjectivity in Rohina Malik’s Unveiled; MEGAN STAHL PART FOUR ; Motherhood as Theatrical Labor 16 Radical Inclusivity: An Interview with PAAL Founder and Broadway Performer, Rachel Spencer Hewitt; DANIELLA VINITSKI MOONEY 17 Performing Performance Moms; TERESA SIMONE 18 ASTR Field Conversation: Black Motherhood; MYSIA ANDERSON, MAISHA S. AKBAR, SHONDRIKA MOSS-BOULDIN, AND NICOLE HODGES PERSLEY 19 These Truths Will Go No Further: Exploring Black Women’s “Motherwork” in Contemporary Playmaking; KRISTYL D. T IFT 20 A Doula/Director’s Manifesto for Creation; or, Dismantling the Patriarchy in Creative Spaces; SHAWNA MEFFERD KELTY 21 Verklempt, Kvelling, and Kvetching: Reclaiming Jewish Motherhood Stereotypes; CHRISTINA HURTADO-PIERSON AND JESSI E LEE MILLS Conclusion Appendix: (M)Other Plays; Index Contributors Bio Alison Walls is Artistic Director at The Court Theatre, New Zealand. She holds a PhD from The Graduate Center, an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, and an MA from Victoria University of Wellington. Publications include a monograph on nineteenth century French literature, articles in The New Zealand Journal of French Studies, Language and Literature, Studies in Musical Theatre, The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, Theatre Journal, and The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, and a chapter in The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance. Alison has taught Theatre and Performance Studies in the U.S., China, and New Zealand. Aoise Stratford is a playwright, dramaturg, theatre scholar and lecturer at Cornell University. She works primarily on the Gothic, and on postcolonial and feminist drama. She has published in Theatre Survey, The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Modern Drama, Frontiers, and The Dramatist . Essays on feminist playwrights Dorothy Hewett and Liz Lochhead are forthcoming in The Routledge Anthology of Women’s Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism and her essay Married to The Monster appears in Routledge’s Monsters in Performance . As a playwright her work has seen more than 100 productions around the USA and internationally. Christina Hurtado-Pierson (she/her) is a lecturer at Pomona College and a current doctoral student at Stony Brook University. She is a dramaturg and historian focusing on 19th and early-20th -century American performance. She received her MFA in Dramaturgy from Columbia University. Daniella Vinitski Mooney, PhD is a scholar and conservatory trained actress through the NYU Experimental Theatre Wing and the Royal Academy in London, as well as through York University. She is also an award-winning director for devised work and multi-media. Her areas of expertise include experimental and classical theatre, as well as new work development. Daniella most recently dramaturged for PlayPenn and has taught regularly for the University of Pennsylvania. Her book project, "The Immersive Theatre of GAle GAtes, " (Routledge) is a descriptive narrative of the Brooklyn-based theatre company. Daniella holds dual Canadian/US citizenship and currently resides in Toronto. Daphne Lei is internationally recognized for her scholarship on Chinese opera, Asian American theatre, intercultural, diasporic and transnational, and transpacific performance. Her intellectual interest is the contact zone, where conflicts occur and solutions are sought, where hybridity is nurtured and resisted, where borders are crossed and borderlands formed, where identity is challenged and performed. Her research focuses on intercultural exchanges across the Pacific, especially interactions between Asians and Asian Americans and negotiations between Asian and non-Asian cultures. Diana Benea is Assistant Professor of North American Studies at the University of Bucharest, Romania, and a former Fulbright Senior Scholar at the City University of New York – The Graduate Center (2017-2018). Her theater publications include Staging Crisis in Contemporary North American Theater (a co-edited special issue of American, British and Canadian Studies, De Gruyter, December 2022), as well as chapters in The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Race (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) and American Dramaturgies for the 21st Century (Sorbonne UP, 2021). She is also the translator of Saviana Stănescu’s plays into Romanian. L. Bailey McDaniel is an Associate Professor with the English department at Oakland University, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Drama, African American Literature and Drama, Gender Studies, and Literary Theory. Her book (Re)Constructing Maternal Performance in 20th c. American Drama investigates how race-based notions of maternal performance become sites of resistance to cultural and political hierarchies. She has also published article-length works on playwrights Cherríe Moraga, David Henry Hwang, Arthur Miller, Danai Gurira, Philip Kan Gotanda, and August Wilson. <
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (336 pages)
• Subjects: 812.60935252; American drama -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Mothers in literature; Motherhood in literature; Feminism and literature -- North America; Women and literature -- North America
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000887488; 9781000887457
• Related ISBNs: 9781032303116
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