Anxious Masculinity in the Drama of Arthur Miller and Beyond
Salesmen, Sluggers, and Big Daddies
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Date of Publication: 13 July 2023
Number of Volumes: Paperback
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Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781350272972 |
| ISBN10: | 1350272973 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 240 pages |
| Size: | 216x138 mm |
| Language: | English |
| 628 |
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Long description:
Staunchly homosocial, vaguely or overtly misogynistic, anxiously homophobic-this study follows the male breadwinner as he is incarnated in Arthur Miller's most celebrated plays and as he resurfaces in different guises throughout American drama, from the 1950s to the present.
Anxious Masculinity offers a compelling analysis of gender dynamics and the legacy of this figure as he stalks through the works of other American dramatists, and argues that the gendered anxieties exhibited by their characters are the very ones invoked with such success by Donald Trump.
Claire Gleitman examines this figure in the plays of Miller and Tennessee Williams, as well as later 20th-century writers Lorraine Hansberry, August Wilson, and Sam Shepard, who reposition him in more racially and economically marginalized settings. He reappears in the more recent work of playwrights Tony Kushner, Paula Vogel, and collaborators Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori, who shift their focus to the next generation, which seeks to escape his clutches and forge new, often gleefully queer identities.
The final chapter concerns contemporary Black dramatists Suzan Lori-Parks, Jackie Sibblies Drury, and Jeremy O. Harris, whose plays move us from anxious masculinity to anxious whiteness and speak directly to the current moment.
Anxious Masculinity offers a compelling analysis of gender dynamics and the legacy of this figure as he stalks through the works of other American dramatists, and argues that the gendered anxieties exhibited by their characters are the very ones invoked with such success by Donald Trump.
Claire Gleitman examines this figure in the plays of Miller and Tennessee Williams, as well as later 20th-century writers Lorraine Hansberry, August Wilson, and Sam Shepard, who reposition him in more racially and economically marginalized settings. He reappears in the more recent work of playwrights Tony Kushner, Paula Vogel, and collaborators Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori, who shift their focus to the next generation, which seeks to escape his clutches and forge new, often gleefully queer identities.
The final chapter concerns contemporary Black dramatists Suzan Lori-Parks, Jackie Sibblies Drury, and Jeremy O. Harris, whose plays move us from anxious masculinity to anxious whiteness and speak directly to the current moment.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Prison-House of Gender
1. Strudel and the Single Man: All My Sons and Death of a Salesman
2. Witchcraft and the Weird: The Crucible and A View from the Bridge
3. Performing White Male Heteronormativity: A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
4. Playing Ball on the Margins: Raisin in the Sun, Fences, Curse of the Starving Class
5. Queering a New Generation: Angels in America, How I Learned to Drive, Fun Home
6. Cakewalks and the White Gaze: Topdog/Underdog, Fairview, Slave Play
Notes
References
Index
Introduction: The Prison-House of Gender
1. Strudel and the Single Man: All My Sons and Death of a Salesman
2. Witchcraft and the Weird: The Crucible and A View from the Bridge
3. Performing White Male Heteronormativity: A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
4. Playing Ball on the Margins: Raisin in the Sun, Fences, Curse of the Starving Class
5. Queering a New Generation: Angels in America, How I Learned to Drive, Fun Home
6. Cakewalks and the White Gaze: Topdog/Underdog, Fairview, Slave Play
Notes
References
Index
