Intersecting boundaries : the theatre of Adrienne Kennedy / Paul K. Bryant-Jackson and Lois More Overbeck, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bryant-Jackson, Paul K.

Overbeck, Lois More.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American drama.

Kennedy, Adrienne--Criticism and interpretation.

Kennedy, Adrienne.

Physical Description:

xvi, 254 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although Adrienne Kennedy's plays are highly regarded in the world of American theater, this is the first major critical study of her work. Topics covered encompass all of Kennedy's writing for the theater and explore her innovative dramaturgy in.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART I: The Life in the Work

1. Adrienne Kennedy: An Interview

2. People Who Led to My Plays: Adrienne Kennedy's Autobiography

3. The Life of the Work: A Preliminary Sketch

PART II: Intersecting Dramatic Traditions

4. Kennedy's Travelers in the American and African Continuum

5. Diverse Angles of Vision: Two Black Women Playwrights

6. Adrienne Kennedy and the First Avant-Garde

7. Adrienne Kennedy through the Lens of German Expressionism

8. Surrealism as Mimesis: A Director's Guide to Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro

PART III: Changing Boundaries: Interpretive Approaches

9. Locating Adrienne Kennedy: Prefacing the Subject

10. Mimesis in Syncopated Time: Reading Adrienne Kennedy

11. (Hetero)Sexual Terrors in Adrienne Kennedy's Early Plays

12. Kennedy's Body Politic: The Mulatta, Menses, and the Medusa

13. "A Spectator Watching My Life": Adrienne Kennedy's A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White

14. Critical Reflections: Adrienne Kennedy, the Writer, the Work

PART IV: Performance as a Collaborative Art

15. An Interview with Michael Kahn

16. An Interview with Gaby Rodgers

17. An Interview with Gerald Freedman

18. An Interview with Billie Allen

19.Developing a Concert for the Spoken Voice: Solo Voyages, and an Interview with Robbie McCauley

Selected Bibliography

Contributors

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-235) and index.

ISBN:

9780816684106

0816684103

9780816620166

0816620164

OCLC:

560401885