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Woodson, Stephani Etheridge.

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Mapping the cultural geography of childhood or constructing the child in child drama: 1950 to the present.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mapping the cultural geography of childhood or constructing the child in child drama: 1950 to the present./
Author:	Woodson, Stephani Etheridge.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1999,
Description:	202 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-03, Section: A, page: 5960.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-03A.
Subject:	Theater. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9924216
ISBN:	9780599237896

Mapping the cultural geography of childhood or constructing the child in child drama: 1950 to the present.
Woodson, Stephani Etheridge.

Mapping the cultural geography of childhood or constructing the child in child drama: 1950 to the present. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1999 - 202 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-03, Section: A, page: 5960.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 1999.

Humans must necessarily experience biological immaturity, but childhood is the manner in which a society understands and articulates that physical reality. Viewed in this light, the child becomes a metaphor---a pattern of meaning---and childhood can be conceived of as culturally specific ideologies. Unlike gender or race, childhood is a temporary and temporal classification; however, it can be understood in much the same manner---as sets of power relationships revolving around different axes. Like early feminists whose work separated gender from sex and deconstructed understandings of "natural," this study unpacks and explores the ways in which American culture and specifically the American child drama field shapes and understands the child. One reason to explore the cultural geography of childhood is that it maps implicit ideological (and moral) assumptions in the conceptualization of what it "is" to be a child as well as what it "ought" to be. In the child drama field---intricately associated with children's supposed emotions, levels of creativity, and states of mind, as well as aesthetic experiences---childhood and the child must be scrutinized as complex constructs, rather than "natural" objects, in order to begin an exploration of hidden ideologies and moralities. This research investigates the metaphorical topography of childhood constructs found under the surface of the American child drama field's dramatic literature, practices, texts, and educational and promotional materials; and compares and contrasts them against mainstream American culture. This dissertation is divided into broad tropes that locate and explore dominant constructions of childhood: "Predestined Childhoods" includes Aurand Harris's Simple Simon, Isabel Burger's Creative Play Acting, and Jonathan Levy's A Theatre of the Imagination. "Controlled Childhoods or Dangerous Children" includes Charlotte Chorpenning's Twenty-One Years With Children's Theatre, Maxwell Anderson's Bad Seed, a case study on Time's coverage of the Jonesboro school-yard shootings, Babies Having Babies by Kathryn Montgomery and Jeffrey Auerbach, and Jerome McDonough's Juvie. "Disruptive and Contained Spaces" considers Suzan Zeder's In a Room Somewhere, Teletubbies, and the Adventure Theatre. This mix of child drama narratives with stories drawn from popular culture and the media allows the research to link and to explore a wide variety of discourses constituting and reconstituting childhood.

ISBN: 9780599237896Subjects--Topical Terms:

522973
Theater.

Mapping the cultural geography of childhood or constructing the child in child drama: 1950 to the present.
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