In Staging Whiteness, Mary Brewer offers close textual readings of plays by American and British 20th century playwrights - both canonical and some that fall outside the mainstream - looking at how whiteness as an identity is created onstage, and how this has changed historically. With clarity and persuasion, Brewer argues that configurations of whiteness are dispersed and reflected through discourses that range from theory to literature and common social language, and that discursive performances of whiteness are a crucial feature of everyday social interactions.
- ISBN10 0819567698
- ISBN13 9780819567697
- Publish Date 29 July 2005
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 July 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher University Press of New England
- Imprint Wesleyan University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English