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TRAGIC-COMIC TWIST: DAUGHTERS AS MOTHERS
TRAGIC-COMIC TWIST: DAUGHTERS AS MOTHERS

Author(s): Meryem Ayan
Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara

Summary/Abstract: In Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes, classified as melodrama but conveying tragic features, and in Neil Simon’s comic play The Gingerbread Lady, the relationships between mothers and daughters progress in a tragic-comic twist because daughters behave as mothers and the mothers as daughters. Regarding genre and role changes the traditional genre and typical mother-daughter and family relations have been corrupted in both plays.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 09
  • Page Range: 152-167
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English
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