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Rodgers And Hammerstein: Homosexual Romance

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Heterosexual romance becomes important in the U.S. society as it resolves cultural and racial problems that arise in the 1950s. As Stacy Wolf says, “heterosexual romance stands in for larger struggles in the U.S. that are symbolically resolved in marriage” (9). An example of Wolf’s idea is expressed in many musicals during this time, such as in the musical South Pacific by Rodgers and Hammerstein. In the musical, racial tensions are resolved with marriage.
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