Complicating the Female Subject

Gender, National Myths, and Genre in Polish Women's Inter-War Drama

AvJoanna Kot

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Del i serien Polish Studies

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Beskrivning

Seven inter-war plays by Polish women writers created a flurry of excitement and condemnation when they appeared, yet today they are almost forgotten. This groundbreaking study interrogates the feminism of these plays and their authors, who dared to question national myths, subvert genre expectations, and reinterpret definitions of subjectivity, anticipating the work of numerous women playwrights in post-1989 Poland. Synthesizing a variety of theoretical perspectives, the author produces a nuanced reading of each work and of the group as a whole. Both texts and the innovative synthetic approach will interest scholars of Polish literature, of drama, and of gender studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-01-19
Mått:155 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt:599 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Polish Studies
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Academic Studies Press
ISBN:9781618115423

Utforska kategorier

Dramatik inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Associate professor of Polish and Russian at Northern Illinois University, Joanna Kot has written extensively on Polish and Russian modernist drama, including the monograph Distance Manipulation: The Russian Modernist Search for a New Drama. Her recent work focuses on 1930s Polish women playwrights as important predecessors to contemporary feminist drama.

Recensioner i media

"This is a daring and thought-provoking book for all theater lovers. Joann Kot's comprehensive study revives archival theater scripts and forgotten plays of Poland's inter-war "women's drama" in a way that energizes and delights. Reading her analysis makes us rethink the mechanisms of theater and the structures of domination at the same time. This ostensibly modest rediscovery, conducted in a bi-lingual format proposed by Kot, also reveals the rich suppressed heritage behind Polish women's voices today asserting clearly that the country's national stage history needs to be seen anew, in a brighter and fuller light."

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionChapter 1. Women and Drama in Other Western ModernismsChapter 2. Inter-War PolandChapter 3. Who Were They? A Short Biographical IntroductionChapter 4. What Are They? Plot Summaries of the PlaysChapter 5. Theorizing the Subject: Seeing Through an Essentialist LensChapter 6. Theorizing the Subject: Possibilities of ChangeChapter 7. The Subject Vis-à- Vis Cultural MythsChapter 8. Dramatic FissuresChapter 9. Inter-War Critical ReceptionConclusion