Demastes, William W.
Interrogating America through Theatre and Performance
1. Introduction: America Defined and Refined
William W. Demastes
2. The Savage Other: “Indianizing” and Performance in Nineteenth-Century American Culture
Rosemarie K. Bank
3. Defining Faith: Theatrical Reactions to Pro-Slavery Christianity in Antebellum America
Amy E. Hughes
4. Negotiating a New Identity: Irish Americans and the Variety Theatre in the 1860s
Susan Kattwinkel
5. Drama and Cultural Pluralism in the America of Susan Glaspell’s
Noelia Hernando-Real
6. Beneath the Horizon: Pipe Dreams, Identity, and Capital in Eugene O’Neill’s First Broadway Play
Jeffrey Eric Jenkins
7. Vernacularizing Brecht: The Political Theatre of the New Deal
Ilka Saal
8. Let Freedom Ring: Mordecai Gorelik’s Politicized Stage Designs
Anne Fletcher
9. Choreographing America: Redefining American Ballet in the Age of Consensus
Andrea Harris
10. Arthur Miller: In Memoriam
Christopher Bigsby
11. Menageries, Melting Pots, Movies: Tennessee on America
Janet V. Haedicke
12. Facts on Trial: Documentary Theatre and
Jacqueline O’Connor
13. “The Ground on Which I Stand is I, too, Am America”: African American Cycle Dramatists, Dramas, and the Voice of Inclusion
Ladrica Menson-Furr
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Steve Feffer
15. From Paradise to Parasite: Information Theory, Noise, and Disequilibrium in John Guare’s
Mike Heuvel
16. Not “
Deborah R. Geis
17. Reflections in a Pool: Mary Zimmerman’s
Andrea Nouryeh
18. An American Echo: Suzan-Lori Parks’s
Robert Vorlicky
Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Theatre History, Performing Arts, US History, Theatre and Performance Studies, Dance, History of the Americas
- Editor
- Demastes, William W.
- Fischer, Iris Smith
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2007
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
- Page amount
- 313 pages
- Category
- Art, Art History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230100787
- Printed ISBN
- 978-0-230-61901-2