The theater of transformation postmodernism in American drama

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The theater of transformation postmodernism in American drama

Kerstin Schmidt

(Postmodern studies, 37)

Rodopi, 2005

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Includes indexes

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The Theater of Transformation: Postmodernism in American Drama offers a fresh and innovative reading of the contemporary experimental American theater scene and navigates through the contested and contentious relationship between postmodernism and contemporary drama. This book addresses gender and class as well as racial issues in the context of a theoretical discussion of dramatic texts, textuality, and performance. Transformation is contemporary drama's answer to the questions of postmodernism and a major technique in the development of a postmodern language for the stage. In order to demonstrate the multi-faceted nature of the postmodern theater of transformation, this study draws on a wide range of plays: from early experimental plays of the 1960s by Jean-Claude van Itallie through feminist plays by Megan Terry and Rochelle Owens to more recent drama by the African-American playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. The Theater of Transformation: Postmodernism in American Drama is written for anyone interested in contemporary American drama and theater as well as in postmodernism and contemporary literary theory. It appeals even more broadly to a readership intrigued by the ubiquitous aspects of popular culture, by feminism and ethnicity, and by issues pertaining to the so-called 'society of spectacle' and the study of contemporary media.

目次

I Introduction: The Postmodern Condition of Drama II Theorizing Dramatic Form: Aspects of Transformation in Postmodern Drama III Jean-Claude van Itallie: Mediatized Culture and the Postmodern Self IV Megan Terry and Rochelle Owens: Transformation and Postmodern Feminism V Suzan-Lori Parks: "Rep & Rev" Postmodernism VI Works Cited

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA82879931
  • ISBN
    • 904201895X
  • 出版国コード
    ne
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Amsterdam
  • ページ数/冊数
    230 p.
  • 大きさ
    22 cm
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