{"product_id":"complicating-the-female-subject-gender-national-myths-and-genre-in-polish-womens-inter-war-drama-9781618115423","title":"Complicating the Female Subject: Gender, National","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeven inter-war plays by Polish women writers created a flurry of excitement and condemnation when they appeared, yet today they are almost forgotten. This groundbreaking study interrogates the feminism of these plays and their authors, who dared to question national myths, subvert genre expectations, and reinterpret definitions of subjectivity, anticipating the work of numerous women playwrights in post-1989 Poland. Synthesizing a variety of theoretical perspectives, the author produces a nuanced reading of each work and of the group as a whole. Both texts and the innovative synthetic approach will interest scholars of Polish literature, of drama, and of gender studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eComplicating the Female Subject\u003c\/i\u003e serves as an important introduction to dramatic works written by women during the twenty-year period in which Poland regained independence, bringing to light largely ignored material, and will certainly be of interest to specialists of Polish drama and inter-war culture. -- Diana Sacilowski * The Polish Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eComplicating the Female Subject: Gender, National Myths, and Genre in Polish \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen’s Inter-War Drama\u003c\/i\u003e, Joanna Kot works to broaden the landscape of interwar Polish literature and to consider how women playwrights worked in and against the conventions of their time to complicate the female subject. … Kot’s work, rooted in literary theory and contextualized culturally and historically, offers a thought-provoking introduction to women playwrights engaged in the project of defining their role within a rapidly changing Poland. … As Poland continues to grapple with the role of women in society, \u003ci\u003eComplicating the Female Subject\u003c\/i\u003e introduces us to a group of women who 'shared faith in the possibility' of improvement.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Alena Gray Aniskiewicz, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, \u003ci\u003eWomen East-West\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Women and Drama in Other Western Modernisms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2. Inter-War Poland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3. Who Were They? A Short Biographical Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4. What Are They? Plot Summaries of the Plays\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5. Theorizing the Subject: Seeing Through an Essentialist Lens\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6. Theorizing the Subject: Possibilities of Change\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7. The Subject Vis-à- Vis Cultural Myths\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8. Dramatic Fissures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9. Inter-War Critical Reception\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Academic Studies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359752257879,"sku":"9781618115423","price":66.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781618115423.jpg?v=1754125603","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/complicating-the-female-subject-gender-national-myths-and-genre-in-polish-womens-inter-war-drama-9781618115423","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}