Staging Place - The Geography of Modern Drama (Paperback, New edition)

"Staging Place: The Geography of Modern Drama" reimagines the content and continuities of theater history and exposes underlying dialogues between "home and homelessness, belonging and exile"--a century-long struggle with the meaning and power of place, which the author terms "geopathology." By reading canonical works in conjunction with contemporary ones, Chaudhuri charts the evolution of a dramatic paradigm with profound theatrical and thematic implications.
Chaudhuri starts with a discussion of a "poetics of exile" in early modern drama, where the figure of home is constructed as a locus of two conflicting impulses: the desire to find a stable site for individual identity and the desire to deterritorialize the self. By mid-century, she argues, a new discourse of "failed homecoming" begins to displace this geopathic model and replace the poetics of exile with a grim anti-poetics of immigration. She then employs postmodern and postcolonial theories of place and culture to define the emerging multiculturalism as a creative reworking of the figures of home, homecoming, homelessness, immigration and exile.
"This is a book of real originality. Its treatment of space in modern drama is elegant and powerful. . . ." --William B. Worthen, Northwestern University
"Staging Place is a powerfully written book, deft in its handling of familiar and unfamiliar plays alike and eclectic in its use of theatrical sources." --"Essays in Theatre/ etudes theatrales"
"This sophisticated and well-written study for graduate students and their teachers explores modern drama's preoccupation with the seemingly irreconcilable discontinuities between the notions of home and homelessness, belonging andexile. . . . The readings of individual plays are fresh and invigorating. . . ." --"Choice"
Una Chaudhuri is Associate Professor of English, New York University.

General

Imprint:	The University of Michigan Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
Release date:	April 1997
First published:	June 1997
Authors:	Una Chaudhuri
Dimensions:	229 x 154 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	328
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-472-06589-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Technical & background skills > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General Promotions
LSN:	0-472-06589-0
Barcode:	9780472065899

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