Staging difference : cultural pluralism in American theatre and drama / Marc Maufort, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maufort, Marc.

Series:

American university studies. Theatre arts ; Series XXVI, v. 25.

American university studies. Series XXVI, Theatre arts, 0899-9880 ; v. 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American drama--20th century--History and criticism.

American drama.

American drama--Minority authors--History and criticism.

Theater--United States--History--20th century.

Theater.

Cultural pluralism in literature.

Theater and society--United States.

Theater and society.

Ethnic groups in literature.

Minorities in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, c1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume seeks to determine how contemporary American playwrights and theatre practitioners translate the current debate on cultural pluralism in the United States. While offering re-visions of the Melting Pot, they often challenge its idealistic assumptions, thus inscribing in their work the cultural difference of minorities. Up to now, scholars have studied isolated aspects of this phenomenon. Staging Difference tries to offer a more comprehensive vision, examining the influence of multiculturalism both on performance and dramatic literature.

«Maufort...has put together an excellent collection of original essays, uniting in one volume discussion of the multiple issues related to the cultural pluralism of American dramatic literature...All of the essays are thought-provoking, timely...A solid effort.» (M.D. Whitlatch, Choice)

Contents:

Table of Contents; Marc Maufort: Staging Difference: A Challenge to the American Melting Pot 1; Cultural Pluralism and Performance 7; Sarah Blackstone: Simplifying the Native American: Wild West Shows Exhibit the ""Indian"" 9; Beverly Bronson Smith: The Semiotics of Difference: Representations of Ethnicity and Nativism in Early Twentieth Century American Theatre 19; Deborah Wood Holton: Who Do You See When You Look At Me? Black Core Values and African American Identity in Performance 31; Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei: Intercultural Directing: Revitalizing Force or Spiritual Rape? 45

Bruce A. McConachie: The ""Oriental"" Musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein and the U.S. War in Southeast Asia 57Kim Marra: Marginal Experience/Mainstream Vision in the Theatrical Career of Zelda (Paldi) Sears 75; Felicia Hardison Londré: Confronting Shakespeare's ""Political Incorrectness"" in Production: Contemporary American Audiences and the New "" Problem Plays"" 85; The Canon of American Drama and Cultural Difference 108; Ronald R. Miller: Eugene O'Neill's First Transcultural Epic: ""Universal History"" in The Fountain 99

Martha Bower: The Pathology of Resistance to Cultural Assimilation in Eugene O'Neill's Late Plays 111James A. Robinson: Both His Sons: Arthur Miller's The Price and Jewish Assimilation 121; Georges-Michel Sarotte: Fluidity and Differentiation in Three Plays by Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 141; Johan Callens: Sam Shepard's Inter/National Stage 157; Alain Piette: The Devil's Advocate: David Mamet's Oleanna and Political Correctness 173; The Emergence of a New Multicultural Drama 200

James S. Moy: Asian American Visibility: Touring Fierce Racial Geographies 191Robert Cooperman: New Theatrical Statements: Asian-Western Mergers in the Early Plays of David Henry Hwang 201; Granger Babcock: Looking for a Third Space: El Pachuco and Chicano Nationalism in Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit 215; John V Antush: The Internal Third World Voice and Postcolonial Literature: René Marqués's The Oxcart 227; Glenda Frank: The Struggle to Affirm: The Image of Jewish-Americans on Stage 245; Bette Mandl: ""Alive Still, In You:"" Memory and Silence in A Shayna Maidel 259

Yvonne Shafer: Breaking Barriers: August Wilson 267Harry J. Elam, Jr.: Of Angels and Transcendence: An Analysis of Fences by August Wilson and Roosters by Milcha Sanchez-Scott 287; Savas Patsalidis: Adrienne Kennedy's Heterotopias and the (Im)possibilities of the (Black) Female Self 301; Patricia R. Schroeder: Re-Reading Alice Childress 323; Richard Wattenberg: Sophie Treadwell and the Frontier Myth: Western Motifs in Machinal and Hope for a Harvest 339; Daniel J. Watermeier: The Search for Self: Attachment, Loss and Recovery in The Heidi Chronicles 351; Appendices 363

Robert Cooperman: Across the Boundaries of Cultural Identity: An Interview with David Henry Hwang 365

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-387) and index.

ISBN:

1-299-42500-3

1-4539-1015-8

OCLC:

817915918