| Tennessee Williams has long been recognized as more than a Southern playwright. While his plays have resonated with international audiences for decades, my thesis argues that the American South, and particularly the Mississippi Delta, is necessary as a representative site of suppressed social freedoms for Gendered, Racial, and Sexual Others. Much of Williams's scholarship is done within the context of drama or performance studies. However, this project demonstrates how Williams's work lends itself to interdisciplinary study by utilizing the social and environmental history of the Delta, as well as gender studies and ecocriticism, to illuminate the cultural hegemony he attempts to dismantle. |
