This interdisciplinary collection of 19 essays addresses violence on the American stage. Topics include the revolutionary period and the role of violence in establishing national identity, violence by and against ethnic groups, and females as perpetrators and victims, as well as state and psychological violence and violence within the family. The book works to assess whether representing violence may cause its cessation, or whether it generates further destruction. Featured playwrights include Susan Glaspell, Sophie Treadwell, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Amiri Baraka, Luis Valdes,…mehr
This interdisciplinary collection of 19 essays addresses violence on the American stage. Topics include the revolutionary period and the role of violence in establishing national identity, violence by and against ethnic groups, and females as perpetrators and victims, as well as state and psychological violence and violence within the family. The book works to assess whether representing violence may cause its cessation, or whether it generates further destruction. Featured playwrights include Susan Glaspell, Sophie Treadwell, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Amiri Baraka, Luis Valdes, Cherrie Moraga, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Neil LaBute, John Guare, Rebecca Gilman, and Heather MacDonald.
Alfonso Ceballos Muñoz is an assistant professor of English at the University of Cádiz, Spain, where he teaches American literature. Ramón Espejo Romero is an associate professor of English at the University of Sevilla, Spain, where his teaching primarily focuses on colonial and 19th century American literature, as well as modern American drama. Bernardo Muñoz Martínez is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Sevilla, Spain, and his research concerns contemporary American fiction and reception studies.
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Table of Contents Preface Revolution and After: Heroism and Violence in Early National Plays about the American Revolution AMELIA HOWE KRITZER Violence Averted Only to Return: Visiting the Archive of "Pocahontas Plays" TAMARA UNDERINER The Thrust for Freedom from Systems of Oppression: A Century of Suicide, Prolicide and Viricide in Plays by American Women CHERYL BLACK Sane Enough to Kill: On Women, Madness and the Theatricality of Violence in Susan Glaspell's The Verge NOELIA HERNANDO-REAL New Critical Approaches to Machinal: Sophie Treadwell's Response to Structural Violence MIRIAM LÓPEZ RODRÍGUEZ Working Women and Violence in Jazz Era American Drama JERRY DICKEY The Guns Sing in Harmony: Johnny Johnson and the Musical ANNE BEGGS The Violence at the Top of the Stairs: Domestic Dystopia in Inge's Heartland DOROTHY CHANSKY Psychodrama Strategies That Protect Tennessee Williams' Late-Play Characters from a Violent World DANA RUFOLO "Actual Explosions and Actual Brutality": Baraka, Violence and the Black Arts Stage DIANA ROSENHAGEN Invisibility's Contusions: Violence in Cherríe Moraga's Heroes and Saints and The Hungry Woman and Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit IRMA MAYORGA Threats, Bad Language and Imperatives: Verbal Violence in Politically (In)Correct Institutional Speech in American Drama at the End of the Millennium YIYI LÓPEZ GÁNDARA "Arms in Women's Hands": The Subversion of the Victim Role of Women in Heather McDonald's Dream of a Common Language MARÍA DOLORES NARBONA CARRIÓN Rebecca Gilman's Exploration of Gender Conditioning as a Factor in Violence Against Women MICHAEL SOLOMONSON Neil LaBute, Vigilante of Violence: An Examination of His Trilogy The Shape of Things, Fat Pig and Reasons to Be Pretty N. J. STANLEY Challenging the American Dream: U.S. Theater and the Continuum of State Violence MARTA FERNÁNDEZ MORALES Terrorist Violence and Its (Dis)Figurations in Three American Post-9/11 Plays MARKUS WESSENDORF The Cancer Body (Politic) of American Violence: John Guare's A Few Stout Individuals VIRGINIA DAKARI Affecting the Audience: Gina Gionfriddo's After Ashley BARBARA OZIEBLO About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Preface Revolution and After: Heroism and Violence in Early National Plays about the American Revolution AMELIA HOWE KRITZER Violence Averted Only to Return: Visiting the Archive of "Pocahontas Plays" TAMARA UNDERINER The Thrust for Freedom from Systems of Oppression: A Century of Suicide, Prolicide and Viricide in Plays by American Women CHERYL BLACK Sane Enough to Kill: On Women, Madness and the Theatricality of Violence in Susan Glaspell's The Verge NOELIA HERNANDO-REAL New Critical Approaches to Machinal: Sophie Treadwell's Response to Structural Violence MIRIAM LÓPEZ RODRÍGUEZ Working Women and Violence in Jazz Era American Drama JERRY DICKEY The Guns Sing in Harmony: Johnny Johnson and the Musical ANNE BEGGS The Violence at the Top of the Stairs: Domestic Dystopia in Inge's Heartland DOROTHY CHANSKY Psychodrama Strategies That Protect Tennessee Williams' Late-Play Characters from a Violent World DANA RUFOLO "Actual Explosions and Actual Brutality": Baraka, Violence and the Black Arts Stage DIANA ROSENHAGEN Invisibility's Contusions: Violence in Cherríe Moraga's Heroes and Saints and The Hungry Woman and Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit IRMA MAYORGA Threats, Bad Language and Imperatives: Verbal Violence in Politically (In)Correct Institutional Speech in American Drama at the End of the Millennium YIYI LÓPEZ GÁNDARA "Arms in Women's Hands": The Subversion of the Victim Role of Women in Heather McDonald's Dream of a Common Language MARÍA DOLORES NARBONA CARRIÓN Rebecca Gilman's Exploration of Gender Conditioning as a Factor in Violence Against Women MICHAEL SOLOMONSON Neil LaBute, Vigilante of Violence: An Examination of His Trilogy The Shape of Things, Fat Pig and Reasons to Be Pretty N. J. STANLEY Challenging the American Dream: U.S. Theater and the Continuum of State Violence MARTA FERNÁNDEZ MORALES Terrorist Violence and Its (Dis)Figurations in Three American Post-9/11 Plays MARKUS WESSENDORF The Cancer Body (Politic) of American Violence: John Guare's A Few Stout Individuals VIRGINIA DAKARI Affecting the Audience: Gina Gionfriddo's After Ashley BARBARA OZIEBLO About the Contributors Index
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