Annette Saddik

Contemporary American Drama (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions. It focuses on representative plays and performance texts that experiment with form and content, discussing influential playwrights 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 destabilizes the notion of fixed identity and questions the nature of reality.Key features* Examines the influence of international figures such as Aristotle, Brecht, Artaud and Boal who are central to theatre as a discipline* Explores realistic and anti-realistic styles of American drama and their political and social implications, along with key critical terms and movements* Places the complexity of contemporary American drama within its political, sexual and ethnic contexts* Includes rare images from La MaMa Archive/Ellen Stewart Private Collection* Discusses in detail Stairs to the Roof and Camino Real by Tennessee Williams, Death of a Salesman and The Crucible by Arthur Miller, Dutchman and The Slave by Amira Baraka, Funnyhouse of a Negro by Adrienne Kennedy, The Tooth of Crime and True West by Sam Shepherd and American Buffalo by David Mamet as well as a range of other texts and performers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748630660
• Artikelnr.: 38218688

Autorenporträt

Annette Saddik is Associate Professor of English at New York City College of Technology, CUNY. She is the author of

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Chronology
Introduction
Chapter 1: Experimental Innovations After World War II
Chapter 2: Revisiting the American Dream
Chapter 3: African-American Theater: Voices from the Margins
Chapter 4: Avant-Garde Theater Groups: Revolutions in Performance
Chapter 5: Postmodern Presentations: Questioning Boundaries of Representation
Chapter 6: The Politics of Identity and Exclusion
Chapter 7: Fragmented Representations of American Identity in the Theater of the Vietnam War
Chapter 8: The 'NEA Four' and Performance Art: Making the Invisible Visible
Conclusion
Guide to Further Reading
Glossary.

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