Subject, Interest, and Community in Lynn Nottage's Sweat and Dominique Morisseau's Skeleton Crew.

This paper studies two contemporary plays, Lynn Nottage's Sweat (2015) and Dominique Morisseau's Skeleton Crew (2017), and contends that they examine the assumption that the neoliberal ideology can be effectively confronted through a critical examination of the subject of neoliberalism. It draws mai...

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Publicado en:Neophilologus Vol. 108; no. 4; pp. 689 - 705
Autor principal: Keramatfar, Hossein
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Dec2024
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