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Theatre, society, and the nation : staging American identities /

Steve Wilmer selects key historical moments in American history and examines how the theatre, in formal and informal settings, responded to these events, from the Colonial fight for independence, through Native American struggles, the Socialist Worker play, the Civil Rights Movement, and up to works...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wilmer, S. E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2002.
Colección:Cambridge studies in American theatre and drama ; 15.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 From British colony to independent nation: refashioning identity; 2 Federalist and Democratic Republican theatre: partisan drama in nationalist trappings; 3 Independence for whom? American Indians and the Ghost Dance; 4 The role of workers in the nation The Paterson Strike Pageant; 5 Staging social rebellion in the 1960s; 6 Reconfiguring patriarchy: suffragette and feminist plays; 7 Imaging and deconstructing the multicultural nation in the 1990s; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.