The politics of gender, language and hierarchy in Mamet's 'Oleanna.'
Article Abstract:
David Mamet's plays 'Oleanna' and 'Glengarry, Glen Ross' show a power struggle between a dominant person and a powerless one, characterized through control of speech by interruption. The struggle in 'Oleanna' is gender-based between a man and a woman while in 'Glengarry, Glen Ross,' the struggle is only among men but the same issues are being explored. Control is managed through the form of language, the ability to speak and linguistic power. 'Oleanna' was considered a feminist backlash play but Mamet has dealt with the same issues without gender being involved in an earlier play.
Publication Name: Journal of American Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-8758
Year: 1995
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Closing ranks: Montgomery Jews and civil rights, 1954-1960
Article Abstract:
The Jewish community in Montgomery, AL, refused to support African Americans who were boycotting city bus lines in 1955 to campaign for segregation. Instead, the Jews joined the local authorities in opposing the boycott. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr took the Jews to task for their failure to support the boycott despite the discrimination that they had also suffered for centuries throughout the world. The hostility of the Jewish community in Montgomery toward the boycott and the civil rights movement in general can be attributed to their desire for self-preservation.
Publication Name: Journal of American Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-8758
Year: 1998
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A machine out of order: indifferentiation in David Mamet's 'The Disappearance of the Jews.' (Special Number: Ethnicity in America )
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David Mamet's play 'The Disappearance of the Jews' uses the absence of action to convey the idea that, in the Judaic tradition, the past has become unreliable and the future uncertain. In the play, two Jewish men in their thirties, Bobby Gould and Joey Lewis, meet after a long separation and discuss their lives and general dissatisfaction. Mamet uses Bobby and Joey's conversation to show how they are caught between the dissolution of their Jewish identity and their inability to generate new life.
Publication Name: Journal of American Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-8758
Year: 1991
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