Gender and Genre: Essays on David Mamet

Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Mamet’s Three Children’s Plays: Where the Wilder Things Are....Pages 15-26
Plowing the Buffalo, Fucking the Fruits: (M)Others in American Buffalo and Speed-the-Plow....Pages 27-40
Disguise in Love: Gender and Desire in House of Games and Speed-the-Plow....Pages 41-59
Prophecy and Parody in Edmond....Pages 61-75
Demotic Male Desire and Female Subjectivity in David Mamet: The Split Space of the Women of Edmond....Pages 77-94
Oleanna, or, the Play of Pedagogy....Pages 95-107
A Few Good Men: Collusion and Violence in Oleanna....Pages 109-123
Women on the Verge, Unite!....Pages 125-142
“It’s the Way that You are With Your Children”: The Matriarchal Figure in Mamet’s Late Work....Pages 143-173
Reinscribing the “Fairy”: The Knife and the Mystification of Male Mythology in the Cryptogram....Pages 175-190
Mamet’s Novelistic Voice....Pages 191-208
“A Small Price to Pay”: Superman, Metafamily, and Hero in David Mamet’s Oedipal House of Games....Pages 209-233
Man Without a Gun: Mamet, Masculinity, and Mystification....Pages 235-254
Back Matter....Pages 255-265