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Lethal Performances - Women Who Kill in Modern American Drama (Hardcover, New edition)
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Lethal Performances - Women Who Kill in Modern American Drama (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Contributions to English and American Literary Studies (CEALS), 1
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This book provides an in-depth analysis of representations of
female murderers in modern American drama. Paying close attention
to the plays' plot, form, and style, the study seeks to come to
terms with the dramatic and cultural function of this phenomenon.
Given the rarity of female murder in real life, the popularity and
prevalence of this theme in culture is striking and unsettling at
the same time. After all, a woman who kills not only violates
against basic social rules, but also upsets gender norms. This
potential to break with an ideology that rests on hierarchically
structured gender binaries equips the figure of the female murderer
with the power to symbolically 'kill' established views about
gender and sexuality. It is this ideologically disruptive potential
that makes the female murderer a fascinating object of study, as
her cultural figuration may provide information about the meaning
assigned to women at a certain historical moment.
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