The "weak" subject
on modernity, eros, and women's playwriting
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Author
Publication
1997 - Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Madison, NJ, New Jersey
Language
English
Word Count
88,000 words, Guess
Page Count
352 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL668063M
- ISBN-100838637302
- OCLC Control Number36884113
- OCLC Control Numberweaksubjectonmod0000ande
- Library of Congress Control Number97013826
and 2 more
- LibraryThing9495386
- Goodreads3254180
Classifications
- DDC809.2/0082
- LCCPN1650.W65 A53 1998
Description
Focusing on the work of twentieth-century women playwrights, this book recuperates for feminism the notions of realism and mimesis, and proposes new readings of modern women's plays. It claims that modern women playwrights establish a new form of mimesis. Drawing on theories of French feminist Luce Irigaray, the author calls this dramatic structure "labial mimesis," marks its difference from the traditional structure based on a male hero, and emphasizes its hospitality to the representation of trust, love, friendship, and erotic intimacy among women. She offers a fresh perspective in the lively debate about the viability of realism for feminist writing.
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