“UNDER THE MOON” – IMAGES AND FORMS OF ‘FEMALENESS’ IN ADRIENNE KENNEDY’S PLAYS
“UNDER THE MOON” – IMAGES AND FORMS OF ‘FEMALENESS’ IN ADRIENNE KENNEDY’S PLAYS
Author(s): Gabriella TóthSubject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
Keywords: African American literature; feminist aesthetics; theatre
Summary/Abstract: 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.
Journal: Gender Studies
- Issue Year: 2013
- Issue No: 12
- Page Range: 246-263
- Page Count: 18
- Language: English