Showing posts with label male stereotypes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label male stereotypes. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Literary Advocacy in Susan Glaspell's Play "Trifles"

NON-FICTION

by Mickey Hunt
While Glaspell’s frequently performed 1916 play Trifles as literary advocacy conveys a valid message within its historical period, and raises issues regarding the legal system, it does so at the cost of casting men as being arrogant, foolish, and bound to a certain narrow set of interests, a negative stereotype with potential to create its own injustice.
Read in full HERE.  (2323 words)