Maternal Representations in Twenty-First Century Broadway Musicals Stage Mothers /

• Main Author: MacKenzie, Gina Masucci (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Pivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Theater.; Music.; Contemporary Literature.; Theatre and Performance Studies.
• Physical Description: VII, 87 p. 1 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783030323370
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-32337-0

Maternal Representations in Twenty-First Century Broadway Musicals: Stage Mothers analyzes Broadway productions within the context of their presentation and assessment of motherhood and the variety of roles for mother figures. Using a frame of feminist and psychoanalytical positions, Gina MacKenzie establishes, defines, and interprets mother figures in contemporary Broadway, according to original categorizations of the absent, inconsequential, and overbearing mothers. MacKenzie considers how and why commercial representation of mother figures are limited and predominantly negative, even as fiction, poetry, and other forms of drama offer a much wider and progressive view of the varieties of motherhood possible in society, asserting the need for greater representation of mother figures in commercial musical theatre today. .