Failure, fascism, and teachers in American theatre : pedagogy of the oppressors / James F. Wilson.
2023
PS353 .W55 2023
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Title
Failure, fascism, and teachers in American theatre : pedagogy of the oppressors / James F. Wilson.
Author
Wilson, James F. author.
ISBN
3031340132 electronic book
9783031340130 (electronic bk.)
9783031340123
3031340124
9783031340130 (electronic bk.)
9783031340123
3031340124
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 216 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-031-34013-0 doi
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PS353 .W55 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
812.5093557
Summary
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. James F. Wilson is the Executive Officer of the Theatre and Performance Program at the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA. His work has appeared in several chapter anthologies and academic journals, and he is the author of Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies: Race, Performance, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance (2010).
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history, 2947-5775
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FAILURE, FASCISM, AND TEACHERS IN AMERICAN THEATRE.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - All the Single Ladies: A Century of School Marms and Spinsters
Chapter 2 - Unfit to Teach: Morality, Panic, and Hazardous Teachers, 1920s-1940s
Chapter 3 - Commies on Campus: Radical Liberalism and Academic Freedom, 1940s-1950s
Chapter 4 - Crème de la Crème of Fascism: Miss Jean Brody, Miss Margarida, and Sister Mary Ignatius Explain It All for You, 1960s-1980s
Chapter 5 - Failure to Achieve: A Report Card on Male Teachers in the Theatre.
Chapter 2 - Unfit to Teach: Morality, Panic, and Hazardous Teachers, 1920s-1940s
Chapter 3 - Commies on Campus: Radical Liberalism and Academic Freedom, 1940s-1950s
Chapter 4 - Crème de la Crème of Fascism: Miss Jean Brody, Miss Margarida, and Sister Mary Ignatius Explain It All for You, 1960s-1980s
Chapter 5 - Failure to Achieve: A Report Card on Male Teachers in the Theatre.