Valuing Mariam: Genre Study and Feminist Analysis

Gutierrez, Nancy A.

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“…Major literatures can luxuriate in an Oedipal triangle, but minor literatures necessarily have a``political program.'' This accords with feminist critics' desire to ®nd political valences in women's writing and to elevate commentary to the level of allegory, as in Ntozake Shange's celebration of Frantz Fanon's``jungle breathing' ' (1984: 22; see also Gutierrez 1991). Thus, in minor literatures, everything has a collective value:``Indeed, scarcity of talent is in fact bene®cial and allows the conception of something other than a literature of masters'' (Deleuze and Guattari 1986: 17).…”

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Women and playwriting in nineteenth-century Britain

2000

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from the Sans Pareil, under the management of Jane Scott, dated 24 February 1817. Reproduced by kind permission of the Theatre Museum, Victoria and Albert. 4 Madame Vestris as Don Giovanni. A toy theatre portrait published by J. Dyer. Reproduced by kind permission of the Governing Body, Christ Church, Oxford University. 5 Madame Ce Âleste as the Wild Arab Boy. Lithograph by J. P. Hall, 1834. Reproduced by kind permission of the Harvard Theatre Collection. 6 Caricature of Mrs. Sarah Lane of the Britannia Theatre, subtitled``Rule, Britannia.'' Source and date unknown. Reproduced by kind permission of the British Library. 7 Engraving of Harriot Murray (Siddons) c. 1800. Reproduced by kind permission of the Theatre Museum, Victoria and Albert.

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