Complicating the Female Subject : Gender, National Myths, and Genre in Polish Women's Inter-War Drama / Joanna Kot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kot, Joanna, Author.

Series:

Polish Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in literature.

Polish drama--Women authors--History and criticism.

Polish drama.

Polish drama--20th century--History and criticism.

Feminism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages).

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Women and Drama in Other Western Modernisms

2. Inter-War Poland

3. Who Were They? A Short Biographical Introduction

4. What Are They? Plot Summaries of the Plays

5. Theorizing the Subject: Seeing Through an Essentialist Lens

6. Theorizing the Subject: Possibilities of Change

7. The Subject Vis-à-Vis Cultural Myths

8. Dramatic Fissures

9. Inter-War Critical Reception

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

1-61811-543-X

OCLC:

967877428