TY - BOOK ID - 2559448 TI - Act Like A Man : Challenging Masculinities in American Drama PY - 1995 SN - 0472065726 0472904205 PB - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, DB - UniCat KW - Gender identity in literature KW - Geslachtsidentiteit in de literatuur KW - Hommes dans la littérature KW - Identité sexuelle dans la littérature KW - Mannelijkheid (Psychologie) in de literatuur KW - Mannen in de literatuur KW - Masculinity (Psychology) in literature KW - Masculinité (Psychologie) dans la littérature KW - Men in literature KW - Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature KW - Seksuele rolpatronen in de literatuur KW - Sex role in literature KW - American drama KW - Gender identity in literature. KW - Masculinity in literature. KW - Men in literature. KW - Sex role in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Rôle selon le sexe KW - Masculinite (psychologie) KW - Männlichkeit KW - Drama KW - Male dramatists. KW - American drama. KW - Dans la litterature. KW - USA. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2559448 AB - "In the first comprehensive study of plays written for male characters only, Robert Vorlicky offers a new theory that links cultural codes governing gender and the conventions determining dramatic form. Act Like a Man looks at a range of plays, including those by O'Neill, Albee, Mamet, Baraka, and Rabe as well as new works by Philip Kan Gotanda, Alonzo Lamont, and Robin Swados, to examine how dialogue within these works reflects the social codes of male behavior and inhibits individualization among men. Plays in which women are absent are often characterized by the location of a male "other"--A female presence who distances himself from the dominant, impersonal masculine ethos and thereby becomes a facilitator of personal communication. The potential authority of this figure is so powerful that its presence becomes the primary determinant of the quality of men's interaction and of the range of male subjectivities possible. This formulation becomes the basis of an alternative theory of American dramatic construction, one that challenges traditional dramaturgical notions of realism"--Publisher's description ER -