Contemporary American Drama
This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theorical dimensions. It focuses on representative plays and performance texts that experiment with form and content, discussing influential plawrights and performance artists such as Ten...
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2007.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Contemporary American Drama |c Annette J. Saddik. |
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| 300 | |a 1 volume (xvii-227 pages) : |b illustrations, couverture illustrée ; |c 23 cm. | ||
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| 504 | |a Bibliographie p. 215-221. Index. Chronologie. Glossaire | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a P. 1 -- Introduction -- P. 17 -- Chapter 1, Experimental Innovations After the Second World War. -- P. 40 -- Chapter 2, Revisiting the American Dream. -- P. 72 -- Chapter 3, African-American Theatre: Voices from the Margins. -- P. 108 -- Chapter 4, Avant-Garde Theatre Groups: Revolutions in Performance. -- P. 129 -- Chapter 5, Postmodern Presentations: Questioning Boundaries of Representation. -- P. 151 -- Chapter 6, The Politics of Identity and Exclusion. -- P. 174 -- Chapter 7, Fragmented Representations of American Identity in the Theatre of the Vietnam War. -- P. 190 -- Chapter 8, The "NEA Four" and Performance Art: Making Visible the Invisible. | |
| 520 | |a This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theorical dimensions. It focuses on representative plays and performance texts that experiment with form and content, discussing influential plawrights and performance artists such as Tennessee Williams, Adrienne Kennedy, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Charles Ludlum, Anna Deavere Smith, Karen Finley and Will Power, alongside avant-garde theatre groups. Saddik traces the development of contemporary drama since 1945, and discusses the cross-cultural impact of postwar British and European innovations on American theatre from the 1950s to the present day in order to examine the performance of American identity. She argues that contemporary American theatre is primarily a postmodern drama of inclusion and diversity that destabilises the notion of fixed identity and questions the nature of reality. | ||
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