Kitchen Sink Realisms: Domestic Labor, Dining, and Drama in American Theatre

by Dorothy Chansky

From 1918's Tickless Time through Waiting for Lefty, Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Raisin in the Sun, and The Prisoner of Second Avenue to 2005's The Clean House, domestic labor has figured largely on American stages. No dramatic genre has done more than the one often dismissively dubbed "kitchen sink realism" to both support and contest the idea that the home is naturally women's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609383753
• ISBN13: 9781609383756
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"