Women in David Mamet’s Plays and Films:
Negotiating an Unforgiving Land
This proposed panel for the Annual Conference of the American Literature
Association, 22-25 May 2003, Cambridge, MA seeks to examine the depiction
of women within David Mamet’s considerable body of work—from his earliest
plays (which were frequently criticized as misogynist), to his
screenwriting and directing for Hollywood (which continue to be
predominately, though not exclusively, about men), to his most recent (and
first all-female) play Boston Marriage (which may suggest that Mamet has
begun to reexamine his own dramaturgy).
Of particular interest would be how female voices/identities manifest
themselves within decidedly masculinized worlds; how women confront,
overcome, or succumb to their (enforced) marginality; and how Mamet’s
female characters have (or have not) evolved over nearly three decades
worth of plays and films. But submissions dealing with any aspect of
women’s experiences (from a variety of perspectives: gender studies,
psychoanalysis, deconstruction) with Mamet’s writing are welcome.
Please send 250 word abstracts (included in the body of the email; no
attachments, please) to jcwestgate@ucdavis.edu, or send hard copies of
abstracts to J. Chris Westgate, Department of English, University of
California Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616 (along with contact
information) by December 30, 2002.
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