A Stalker, a Serial Killer, and the Women Who Survived Them: Psychological Abuse as a Form of Gender Violence

• Autores: Miriam E. López Rodríguez
• Localización: Performing gender violence plays by contemporary American women dramatists / coord. por Bárbara Ozieblo Rajkowska, Noelia Hernando Real, 2012, ISBN 978-0-230-33995-8, págs. 79-95
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • t is often said that the literature of a given historical period is a reflection of that society; that the fiction, drama, and poetry created during a specific time represent the ideology, dreams, and fears not only of the artists who actually created them but also of their society. Therefore, as readers, we must assume that the drama written during the last fifty years reflects who we are, what we believe in, and what our moral values are. Then it should come as no surprise that an increasing number of plays written by contemporary American playwrights—both male and female—deal with the subject of violence; in most cases, with violence within the family. Whether such a large number of plays revolving around gender violence is a consequence of the rise in abusive relationships or of the rise in acknowledgment of an abuse, which was always there, is beyond the scope of this chapter