Funnyhouse of a Negro
Author | : Adrienne Kennedy |
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Release | : 1969 |
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Author | : Adrienne Kennedy |
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Release | : 1969 |
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Author | : Sacvan Bercovitch |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 824 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521497329 |
Volume VII of the Cambridge History of American Literature examines a broad range of American literature of the past half-century, revealing complex relations to changes in society. Christopher Bigsby discusses American dramatists from Tennessee Williams to August Wilson, showing how innovations in theatre anticipated a world of emerging countercultures and provided America with an alternative view of contemporary life. Morris Dickstein describes the condition of rebellion in fiction from 1940 to 1970, linking writers as diverse as James Baldwin and John Updike. John Burt examines writers of the American South, describing the tensions between modernization and continued entanglements with the past. Wendy Steiner examines the postmodern fictions since 1970, and shows how the questioning of artistic assumptions has broadened the canon of American literature. Finally, Cyrus Patell highlights the voices of Native American, Asian American, Chicano, gay and lesbian writers, often marginalized but here discussed within and against a broad set of national traditions.
Author | : Suzan-Lori Parks |
Publisher | : Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780822214236 |
THE STORY: Once upon a time there was a theme park called the Great Hole of History. It was a popular spot for honeymooners who, in search of post-nuptial excitement, would visit this hole and watch the daily historical parades. One of these visi
Author | : Maria Irene Fornes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Drama |
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An important play, published for the first time in book form, by the noted author of Promenade and Fefu and Her Friends
Author | : Adrienne Kennedy |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2001-08-13 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1452904855 |
Introduction by Werner Sollors Adrienne Kennedy has been a force in American theatre since the early 1960s, influencing generations of playwrights with her hauntingly fragmentary lyrical dramas. Exploring the violence racism visits upon people's lives, Kennedy's plays express poetic alienation, transcending the particulars of character and plot through ritualistic repetition and radical structural experimentation. Frequently produced, read, and taught, they continue to hold a significant place among the most exciting dramas of the past fifty years. This first comprehensive collection of her most important works traces the development of Kennedy's unique theatrical oeuvre from her Obie-winning Funnyhouse of a Negro (1964) through significant later works such as A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White (1976), Ohio State Murders (1992), and June and Jean in Concert, for which she won an Obie in 1996. The entire contents of Kennedy's groundbreaking collections In One Act and The Alexander Plays are included, as is her earliest work "Because of the King of France" and the play An Evening with Dead Essex (1972). More recent prose writings "Secret Paragraphs about My Brother," "A Letter to Flowers," and "Sisters Etta and Ella" are fascinating refractions of the themes and motifs of her dramatic works, even while they explore new material on teaching and writing. An introduction by Werner Sollors provides a valuable overview of Kennedy's career and the trajectory of her literary development. Adrienne Kennedy (b. 1931) is a three-time Obie-award winning playwright whose works have been widely performed and anthologized. Among her many honors are the American Academy of Arts and Letters award and the Guggenheim fellowship. In 1995-6, the Signature Theatre Company dedicated its entire season to presenting her work. She has been commissioned to write works for the Public Theater, Jerome Robbins, the Royal Court Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum, and Juilliard, and she has been a visiting professor at Yale, Princeton, Brown, the University of California at Berkeley, and Harvard. She lives in New York City.
Author | : Elin Diamond |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1134982135 |
In Unmaking Mimesis Elin Diamond interrogates the concept of mimesis in relation to feminism, theatre and performance. She combines psychoanalytic, semiotic and materialist strategies with readings of selected plays by writers as diverse as Ibsen, Brecht, Aphra Behn, Caryl Churchill and Peggy Shaw. Through a series of provocative readings of theatre, theory and feminist performance she demonstrates the continuing force of feminism and mimesis in critical thinking today. Unmaking Mimesis will interest theatre scholars and performance and cultural theorists, for all of whom issues of text, representation and embodiment are of compelling concern.
Author | : Sacvan Bercovitch |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 846 |
Release | : 1997-01-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521585712 |
Volume I of The Cambridge History of American Literature was originally published in 1997, and covers the colonial and early national periods and discusses the work of a diverse assemblage of authors, from Renaissance explorers and Puritan theocrats to Revolutionary pamphleteers and poets and novelists of the new republic. Addressing those characteristics that render the texts distinctively American while placing the literature in an international perspective, the contributors offer a compelling new evaluation of both the literary importance of early American history and the historical value of early American literature.
Author | : Kathy A. Perkins |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0252075730 |
For the first time, a distinctive collection of plays by African women published in English
Author | : Gerald Izenberg |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 2016-05-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812248082 |
Identity: The Necessity of a Modern Idea is the first comprehensive history of the concept that answers the question, "who, or what, am I?" Gerald Izenberg contends that our most important identities, while historically conditioned, are rooted in permanent categories of human existence, such as sexuality, sociality, and labor.
Author | : Donald Andrew Russell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780192839008 |
This volume provides, in translation, the principal texts of ancient literary criticism, including Aristotle's Poetics, Horace's Art of Poetry, Longinus' On Sublimity, Tacitus' Dialogues, and extracts from Plato and Plutarch.