“UNDER THE MOON” – IMAGES AND FORMS OF ‘FEMALENESS’ IN ADRIENNE KENNEDY’S PLAYS

• Authors: Gabriella Tóth
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper sheds light on the challenging imagery of femaleness in Adrienne Kennedy’s plays. Reshaping dramatic forms, she deconstructs the traditional narratives of motherhood, child bearing and birth. Her plays link the images of reproduction and proliferation with that of death. Kennedy reconstructs the fragmented self through visions of the inner terrain of the psyche which is projected through the moon-like, ever changing female body.

Keywords

EN

African American literature; feminist aesthetics; theatre

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Gender Studies
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 246-263

Dates

published

2013-12-01

online

2014-02-14

Contributors

author

Gabriella Tóth

• University of Szeged, Hungary 6722-H Szeged Egyetem u. 2., Hungary

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/genst-2013-0015