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Author Shih, Yi-chin.

Title How Timberlake Wertenbaker Constructs New Forms of Gender in Her History Plays : Exposing the Power Relations Between the Sexes.

Publication Info. Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.
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Contents HOW TIMBERLAKE WERTENBAKER CONSTRUCTS NEW FORMS OF GENDER IN HER HISTORY PLAYS: Exposing the Power Relations Between the Sexes; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chapter One -- Introduction; Chapter Two -- History as Narrative: The Possibility of Writing Gender into History; Chapter Three -- Rewriting History: Gender in Wertenbaker's History Plays; Chapter Four -- Retelling History: Gender in Wertenbaker's Oral History Plays; Chapter Five -- Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Summary Despite the confines of traditional notions of history and gender, Timberlake Wertenbaker uses her history plays to argue that history and gender should be reread to radically challenge these traditional notions. She uses her history plays to construct a new vision. This book discusses seven Timberlake plays from this new perspective of gender, focusing on how gender impacts history, showing the unstable power relations that exist between the sexes.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Wertenbaker, Timberlake -- Criticism and interpretation.
Wertenbaker, Timberlake.
Criticism and interpretation.
Gender identity in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Shih, Yi-chin. How Timberlake Wertenbaker Constructs New Forms of Gender in Her History Plays : Exposing the Power Relations Between the Sexes. Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2012 9780773426269
ISBN 9780773421868
0773421866
9780773426269
0773426264

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