This timely and accessible book explores the shifting representations of schoolteachers and professors in plays and performances primarily from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the United States. Examining various historical and recurring types, such as spinsters, schoolmarms, presumed sexual deviants, radicals and communists, fascists, and emasculated men teachers, Wilson shines the spotlight on both well-known and nearly-forgotten plays. The analysis draws on a range of scholars from cultural and gender studies, queer theory, and critical race discourses to consider teacher characters within notable education movements and periods of political upheaval. Richly illustrated, the book will appeal to theatre scholars and general readers as it delves into plays and performances that reflect cultural fears, desires, and fetishistic fantasies associated with educators. In the process, the scrutiny on the array of characters may help illuminate current attacks on real-life teachers while providing meaningful opportunities for intervention in the ongoing education wars.
Finalist for the 2023 Freedley Award
| ISBN: | 9783031340154 |
| Publication date: | 25th October 2024 |
| Author: | James F Wilson |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 216 pages |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History |
| Genres: |
Theatre studies History of Performing Arts Education Biography, Literature and Literary studies |
This timely and accessible book explores the shifting representations of schoolteachers and professors in plays and performances primarily from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the United States. Examining various historical and recurring types, such as spinsters, schoolmarms, presumed sexual deviants, radicals and communists, fascists, and emasculated men teachers, Wilson shines the spotlight on both well-known and nearly-forgotten plays. The analysis draws on a range of scholars from cultural and gender studies, queer theory, and critical race discourses to consider teacher characters within notable education movements and periods of political upheaval. Richly illustrated, the book will appeal to theatre scholars and general readers as it delves into plays and performances that reflect cultural fears, desires, and fetishistic fantasies associated with educators. In the process, the scrutiny on the array of characters may help illuminate current attacks on real-life teachers while providing meaningful opportunities for intervention in the ongoing education wars.
Finalist for the 2023 Freedley Award
Failure, Fascism, and Teachers in American Theatre features in the following genres: Theatre studies, History of Performing Arts, Education, Biography, Literature and Literary studies
Failure, Fascism, and Teachers in American Theatre is available in Paperback
Failure, Fascism, and Teachers in American Theatre was written by James F Wilson and published by Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland
Failure, Fascism, and Teachers in American Theatre has 216 pages
Yes it is part of Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History series
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