Life in the Huddle: Risk, Representation, and the Labour of Athletic Practice in Sarah DeLappe's The Wolves.
Despite being framed by its author as "not really about soccer," Sarah DeLappe's Pulitzer-nominated play The Wolves acutely dramatizes the social dynamics that mark the girls' indoor soccer team at its centre. Sports plays like DeLappe's are useful contributions to the political discourses on women'...
| Publicado en: | Modern Drama Vol. 67; no. 3; pp. 280 - 302 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of Toronto Press
Sep2024
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