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The theater of transformation : postmodernism in American drama / Kerstin Schmidt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schmidt, Kerstin, 1971-
- Series:
- Postmodern studies ; 37.
- Postmodern studies ; 37
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Postmodernism--United States.
- Postmodernism.
- United States.
- Drama--20th century--History and criticism.
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- 230 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; New York, N.Y. : Rodopi, 2005.
- Contents:
- The postmodern condition of drama
- Postmodernism, an assessment for the theater
- The repoliticization of postmodernism
- Survey of selected secondary studies ; Theorizing dramatic form : aspects of transformation in postmodern drama
- The postmodern sense of self
- The dramatic text, performance, and postmodern authorship
- Theatrical space and mediatized culture; Jean-Claude van Itallie : mediatized culture and the postmodern self
- Transformative selves in "Interview"
- "TV": the screen takes over
- "Motel" : cyborgean visions of American motel culture ; Megan Terry and Rochelle Owens : transformation and postmodern feminism
- Megan Terry's Keep tightly closed in a cool dry place : transforming the prison house of the self
- Emma instigated me : Rochelle Owen's play "in the process of becoming" ; Suzan-Lori Parks : "Rep & rev" postmodernism
- Imperceptible mutabilities in the third kingdom : "Histironical amendments" and the third space
- The America play : playing America.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-230).
- ISBN:
- 904201895X
- OCLC:
- 59617068
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