Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-171) and index
Contents:
Introduction / Harold Bloom The Hetairas (Maggie, Myrtle, Blanche) / Gulshan Rai Kataria There are lives that desire does not sustain : A streetcar named desire / Calvin Bedient Domestic violence in A streetcar named desire / Susan Koprince Blanche DuBois and the kindness of endings / George Toles "It's only a paper moon" : the paper ontologies in Tennessee Williams's A streetcar named desire / Philip C. Kolin Misrepresentation and miscegenation : reading the racialized discourse of Tennessee Williams's A streetcar named desire / George W. Crandell Scene 11 of A streetcar named desire / Bert Cardullo Wagnerian architectonics : the plastic language of Tennessee Williams's A streetcar named desire / John S. Bak Darkness made visible : miscegenation, masquerade and the signified racial Other in Tennessee Williams' Baby doll and A streetcar named desire / Rachel Van Duyvenbode A room which isn't empty : A streetcar named desire and the question of homophobia / Michael Paller
