Women's Words, Women's Works: An Anthology of Contemporary Austrian Plays by Women

This is the first anthology in English devoted entirely to contemporary Austrian drama written by women. The selection begins with Clara S. (A Musical Tragedy) by the Buchner-prize winning Elfriede Jelinek, which examines the female artist's existence in a society where artistic genius is coded male and women are relegated to subordinate positions. Gerlinde Obermeir's San Francisco of Course is a series of short episodes depicting the fate of a woman whose world collapses in the faces of br...