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Sexual Politics in the Work of Tennessee Williams on Hardback by Michael S. D. Hooper
Sexual Politics in the Work of Tennessee Williams on Hardback by Michael S. D. Hooper
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Sexual Politics in the Work of Tennessee Williams

Desire over Protest
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Michael S. D. Hooper reverses the recent trend of regarding Tennessee Williams as fundamentally a social writer following the discovery, publication and/or performance of plays from both ends of his career - the 'proletarian' apprentice years of Candles to the Sun and Not About Nightingales and the once overlooked final period of, amongst many other plays, The Red Devil Battery Sign. Hooper contends that recent criticism has exaggerated the political engagement and egalitarian credentials of a writer whose characters and situations revert to a reactionary politics of the individual dominated by the negotiation of sexual power. Directly, or more often indirectly, Williams' writing expresses social disaffection before glamorising the outcast and shelving thoughts of political change. Through detailed analysis of canonical texts the book sheds new light on Williams' work, as well as on the cultural and social life of mid-twentieth-century America.

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Michael S. D. Hooper is Head of English at The Princess Helena College in Hertfordshire, England. He is the editor of the Methuen Student Drama edition of A Streetcar Named Desire (2009).
Release date Australia
April 12th, 2012
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  • Professional & Vocational
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5 Halftones, unspecified
Pages
260
Dimensions
160x234x17
ISBN-13
9781107015364
Product ID
18612626

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