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By Joanna Mansbridge

ISBN-10: 047205239X

ISBN-13: 9780472052394

ISBN-10: 0472072390

ISBN-13: 9780472072392

Paula Vogel’s performs, together with the Pulitzer–prizewinning How I realized to Drive, start up a talk with modern tradition, staging vexed concerns like household violence, pornography, and AIDS. She doesn't write "about" those issues, yet as a substitute examines how they've got turn into framed as “issues­”–as sensationalized topics–focusing at the histories and discourses that experience outlined them and the our bodies that undergo their meanings. Mobilizing campy humor, prepared perception, and nonlinear constitution, her performs defamiliarize the identities and concerns which have been fastened as "just the best way issues are." Vogel crafts collage-like playworlds which are produced from fragments of background and tradition, and which are at the same time inclusive and alienating, widely used and weird, humorous and annoying. on the middle of those playworlds are woman characters negotiating with the photographs and discourses that circumscribe their lives and bodies.

In this, the 1st book-length examine of Vogel and her paintings, Joanna Mansbridge explores how Vogel’s performs communicate again to the canon, responding to and rewriting works through William Shakespeare, Edward Albee, Sam Shepard, and David Mamet, rearranging their plots, revising their conflicts, and recasting their dramatis personae. The ebook examines the theories shaping the playwright and her performs, the construction and reception of her paintings, and the cultured constitution of every play, grounding the paintings in cultural materialist, feminist and queer concept, and theater and function reviews scholarship.

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