Terrence McNally’s Universalizing Model: The Role of Disability in <em>Andre’s Mother; Lips Together, Teeth Apart</em>; and <em>Love! Valour! Compassion!</em>

<p>In his works such as <em>Andre’s Mother</em>; <em>Lips Together, Teeth Apart</em>; and <em>Love! Valour! Compassion!</em>, playwright Terrence McNally utilizes categorically gay themes such as homophobia and living with HIV and AIDS in a time when little was understood about the illnesses. For these reasons, McNally critics customarily analyze McNally’s plays with a queer theory lens. This work examines those same topics and others, but with a critical disability lens. Inspired by Robert McRuer’s analytical partnership of queer, AIDS, and disabilities studies, this work assesses McNally’s use of various types of languages and finds the figures who are characteristically presented as the contrast to normalcy are in fact normalized and hegemonized.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year dc:date.available

2019

Author dc:creator

• Burnstine, Alexa

Contributors dc:contributor

• Myron Yeager
• Justine Van Meter
• Brian Glaser

• McNally
• Disability
• Andre's Mother
• Lips Together Teeth Apart
• Love! Valour! Compassion!
• plays
• Dramatic Literature, Criticism and Theory

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/english_theses/13

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.chapman.edu:english_theses-1015