Beth Roberts
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My research project
Lauren Gunderson and Jaclyn Backhaus’ Historiographic Metadrama: Transgressive Twenty-First-Century Feminist RetellingsMy project considers the works of contemporary American playwrights: Lauren Gunderson and Jaclyn Backhaus. My thesis centres around their use of the historiographic metadramatic form to recover or retell the histories of women and, in some cases, trans and non-binary people. Both Gunderson and Backhaus express inclusive feminist politics that rejects the exclusionary nature of many contemporary groups that may describe themselves as "feminist" without acknowledging the varied experiences of women and the impact of patriarchal structures on women's lives.
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My project considers the works of contemporary American playwrights: Lauren Gunderson and Jaclyn Backhaus. My thesis centres around their use of the historiographic metadramatic form to recover or retell the histories of women and, in some cases, trans and non-binary people. Both Gunderson and Backhaus express inclusive feminist politics that rejects the exclusionary nature of many contemporary groups that may describe themselves as "feminist" without acknowledging the varied experiences of women and the impact of patriarchal structures on women's lives.