Conclusion. Lillian Hellman's South -- South to a familiar place : from Beth Henley to Elizabeth Dewberry and Sandra Deer -- "Another world, another planet" : the displaced South in the work of Paula Vogel and Pearl Cleage -- Re-placing genre, setting, and community in Shay Youngblood's and Sharon Bridgforth's plays -- Conclusion.
Summary:
"In contrast to other literary genres, drama has received little attention in southern studies, and women playwrights in general receive less recognition than their male counterparts. In Marginalized: Southern Women Playwrights Confront Race, Region, and Gender, author Casey Kayser addresses these gaps by examining the work of southern women playwrights, making the argument that representations of the American South on stage are complicated by difficulties of identity, genre, and region. Through analysis of the dramatic texts, the rhetoric of reviews of productions, as well as what the playwrights themselves have said about their plays and productions, Kayser delineates these challenges and argues that playwrights draw on various conscious strategies in response. These strategies, evident in the work of playwrights such as Pearl Cleage, Sandra Deer, Lillian Hellman, Beth Henley, Marsha Norman, and Shay Youngblood, provide them with the opportunity to lead audiences to reconsider monolithic understandings of northern and southern regions and, ultimately, create new visions of the South"-- Provided by publisher.
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