Overview
- Appeals to scholars of American studies, drama, contemporary theatre, and women’s studies
- Merges popular theatre culture and literary theory as well as engages with music theory, performance studies, and drama theory
- Examples how musical theatre defines the American imagination
Part of the book series: Pivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination (PSGALI)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Maternal Representations in Twenty-First Century Broadway Musicals: Stage Mothers analyzes Broadway productions within the context of their presentation and assessment of motherhood and the variety of roles for mother figures. Using a frame of feminist and psychoanalytical positions, Gina MacKenzie establishes, defines, and interprets mother figures in contemporary Broadway, according to original categorizations of the absent, inconsequential, and overbearing mothers. MacKenzie considers how and why commercial representation of mother figures are limited and predominantly negative, even as fiction, poetry, and other forms of drama offer a much wider and progressive view of the varieties of motherhood possible in society, asserting the need for greater representation of mother figures in commercial musical theatre today.
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About the author
Gina Masucci MacKenze is the Associate Dean, School of Arts and Sciences, and Associate Professor of English at Holy Family University, USA, and author of The Theatre of the Real: Yeats, Beckett and Sondheim (2008). She is an associate editor of The American Book Review, and advisory editor for drama for The Journal of Modern Literature.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Maternal Representations in Twenty-First Century Broadway Musicals
Book Subtitle: Stage Mothers
Authors: Gina Masucci MacKenzie
Series Title: Pivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32337-0
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-32336-3Published: 18 November 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-32337-0Published: 01 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-4072
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4080
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 87
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Contemporary Literature, Theatre and Performance Studies, Music