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Contemporary American drama /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Edinburgh critical guides to literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- COVER; CONTENTS; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; 1 Experimental Innovations After the Second World War; 2 Revisiting the American Dream; 3 African-American Theatre: Voices from the Margins; 4 Avant-Garde Theatre Groups: Revolutions in Performance; 5 Postmodern Presentations: Questioning Boundaries of Representation; 6 The Politics of Identity and Exclusion; 7 Fragmented Representations of American Identity in the Theatre of the Vietnam War; 8 The 'NEA Four' and Performance Art: Making Visible the Invisible; Conclusion; Student Resources; Index.