(M)Other Perspectives (Routledge Advances In Theatre & Performance Studies)

This anthology examines maternity in contemporary performance at the intersection of a wide range of topics from nationhood to mental health, queer-parenting, embodied dramaturgy, cultural practice, and immigration. Across the breadth of these themes, we interrogate the cultural implications and politics of how we script, perform, receive, and define mothers, challenging many of the normalizing and patriarchal tropes associated with the mother-as-character. This book includes critical essays examining 21st century dramatic literature, first-hand ethnographic accounts of motherhood in practice, interviews, feminist manifestos and artist reflections. In its deliberately curated variety, this collection seeks to resist homogeneity and offer instead a range of approaches to key questions: What versions of motherhood get staged, and why? And how do dramatic representations tell us about the role of mothers in our own fraught contemporary moment? This collection will be of great interest to those in academia who are teaching, researching, or studying in the fields of Theatre and Performance Studies, American Studies, and Feminist and Gender Studies.

• | Author: Lynn Deboeck, Aoise Stratford
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jun 01, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 298 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1032303115
• | ISBN-13: 9781032303116