This book on Gems has a thesis or a 'backbone' which elicits the title Queer Mythologies. Pam Gems has written over 25 plays, and has not had adequate detailed analysis of her plays to date. She is a popular playwright produced often at the West End and has a widespread appeal by being on the pulse of cultural iconology. Gems writes strong central characters for both male and female actors, and often writes almost cinematically, with time shifts in a non-linear narrativization. Her characters are metaphors for contemporary women and men and she often herstoricizes, thus righting the balance of dramatic history by creating parts for women in British drama. Her dramaturgy brings to the mainstream theatre the identities and subcultures of class, race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality making her plays queer mythologies.
Author(s): Dimple Godiwala
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 200
Preliminary Pages......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Foreword by Professor tim Prentki......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Beginnings......Page 20
White Women’s Mythologies......Page 26
Of Straight and Gay Men: Masculinities in Crisis......Page 82
Negotiating a Space for ‘The Other’......Page 102
Conclusion......Page 114
Bibliography......Page 116
Appendix......Page 122
