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"It's one hell of a mess in here" : masculinity, the myth of the frontier, and the renunciation of the mother in Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman, David Mamet's American buffalo, and Sam Shepard's True west
Grewe-Volpp, Christa
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URL:
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292370468...
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Dokumenttyp:
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Buchkapitel
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Erscheinungsjahr:
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2013
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Buchtitel:
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Post-World War II masculinities in British and American literature and culture
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Seitenbereich:
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129-142
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Herausgeber:
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Horlacher, Stefan
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Ort der Veröffentlichung:
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Farnham [u.a.]
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Verlag:
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Ashgate
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ISBN:
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978-1-4094-6598-0 , 978-1-4094-6599-7 , 978-1-4094-6600-0
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Sprache der Veröffentlichung:
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Englisch
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Einrichtung:
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Philosophische Fakultät > Anglistik III - Amerikanische Literatur- u. Kulturwissenschaft (Reichardt 2001-)
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Fachgebiet:
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810 Englische Literatur Amerikas
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Abstract:
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Gerald Berkowitz categorized the American drama of the twentieth century as “realistic contemporary middle-class domestic melodrama and comedy,” believing “domestic” to be the most important attribute (2). “Not only are American plays about recognizable people in a recognizable world,” he argued, “but they are about the personal lives of these people” (3). Often the action takes place in a living room with the cast made up of family members, but it can also extend to the office and a circle of friends. In most cases it deals with a family crisis, which reflects the society at large, its dreams and aspirations, its conflicts and failures. One can find this set-up in the plays of O’Neill and Miller, of Albee and Williams, of Mamet and Shepard, to name just some of the most prominent playwrights.
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