Analyzing the works of five feminist dramatists, Godiwala (drama and post-colonial theory, York St. John College, UK) puts forth a Foucaldian argument (based especially in his The Archaeology of Knowledge ) that feminism ruptured the epistemological basis of the patriarchal impulse. The dramatists are Caryl Churchill, Pam Gems, Sarah Daniels, Clare McIntyre, and Anne Devlin. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Breaking the Bounds focuses on second-wave feminism as a rupture in an unbroken episteme of Western patriarchy analyzed with regard to British dramatic discourse. The theoretical framework is a genealogy of patriarchy deploying and developing Foucault's ideas on discourse to apply to a deconstruction of Western patriarchy. An analysis of feminist drama texts is used to support the argument that Western patriarchy consists of one unbroken episteme as the patriarchal impulse substrates the epistemological breaks indicated by foucault. The theoretical text speaks of the twentieth-century feminist rupture from patriarchy, analyzing in detail the texts of five mainstream feminist dramatists who have successfully effected an intervention in the British grand recit of undeniably male dramatic discourse.
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