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Staging a Cultural Paradigm - The Political and the Personal in American Drama (Paperback)
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Staging a Cultural Paradigm - The Political and the Personal in American Drama (Paperback)
Series: Dramaturgies, v. 7
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The conflict between the political and the personal, an opposition
which pervades the whole of American Literature, informs the essays
on twentieth-century American theater gathered in this volume.
Prominent theater scholars from Europe and America address the
cultural paradigm created by the clash of private needs with public
expectations. The difficulty of reconciling the two has led many
dramatists to turn to the complexities of intertextuality in order
to express their rebellions and rejections of inherited cultural
values and myths. Essays on Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, Susan
Glaspell, H.M. Koutoukas, Dolores Prida, or Suzan Lori-Parks (to
name but a few of the dramatists discussed here) reflect the
vibrancy of American drama and the depth of the interaction of the
political with the personal. Contents: Barbara Ozieblo:
Introduction: The Political and the Personal in American Drama -
Brenda Murphy: Tennessee Williams and Cold-War Politics - Ana
Anton-Pacheco: Coping with the Personal: Tennessee Williams's
Minimalist Plays - Gary Harrington: The Smashed Mirror: Blanche in
A Streetcar Named Desire - Stuart Marlow: Interrogating The
Crucible: Revisiting the Biographical, Historical and Political
Sources of Arthur Miller's Play - Russell DiNapoli: Maxwell
Anderson's Misuse of Poetic Discourse in Winterset - Johan Callens:
Going Public, Performing Stein - Cheryl Black/Robert K. Sarlos: On
the Threshold of Sexual Politics in American Theater and Drama: The
Provincetown Players - Marcia Noe: The New Woman in the Plays of
Susan Glaspell - Marta Fernandez-Morales: The Two Spheres in Susan
Glaspell's Trifles and The Verge - Karin Ikas: The Promise and the
Reality of the American Dream inMexican-American Plays - Maria
Luisa Ochoa-Fernandez: Weaving the Personal and the Political in
Dolores Prida's Beautiful Senoritas, Coser y Cantar and Botanica -
Mar Gallego: Redefining African-American Female Space: Lorraine
Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun and Ntozake Shange's for colored
girls - Araceli Gonzalez-Crespan: Against « Ruby Lip and Saucy
Curl: Breaking the Great Divide among Women in Beah Richards's A
Black Woman Speaks - Stephen J. Bottoms: Untidying Her Passions:
The Medea of H.M. Koutoukas - Antonia Rodriguez-Gago: Re-Creating
Herstory: Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus - Claudia Barnett: « In Your
Dreams!: Deb Margolin's Fantasy/Drama - Felix Martin-Gutierrez:
Fragments from the Political Unconscious in Adrienne Kennedy's
Plays - La Vinia Delois Jennings: Reflection of Self as Other:
Mimetic Parallels between Minstrelsy and Anna Deveare Smith's Fires
in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities -
Katherine Weiss: Sam Shepard's Family Trilogy: Breaking Down
Mythical Prisons - Ines Cuenca-Aguilar: Representations of Women in
Sam Shepard's Theater - N.J. Stanley: Screamingly Funny and
Terrifyingly Shocking: Paula Vogel as Domestic Detective.
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