03275nam 2200673 a 450 991045836680332120200520144314.01-281-08926-51-78034-348-597866110892690-7486-3066-X(CKB)1000000000403148(EBL)320442(OCoLC)476117770(SSID)ssj0000129584(PQKBManifestationID)11139103(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000129584(PQKBWorkID)10078539(PQKB)11195604(MiAaPQ)EBC320442(Au-PeEL)EBL320442(CaPaEBR)ebr10650690(CaONFJC)MIL108926(OCoLC)182580168(EXLCZ)99100000000040314820080519d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrContemporary American drama[electronic resource] /Annette J. SaddikEdinburgh Edinburgh University Pressc20071 online resource (249 p.)Edinburgh critical guides to literatureDescription based upon print version of record.0-7486-2493-7 Includes bibliography (p. 215-221) and index.COVER; CONTENTS; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; 1 Experimental Innovations After the Second World War; 2 Revisiting the American Dream; 3 African-American Theatre: Voices from the Margins; 4 Avant-Garde Theatre Groups: Revolutions in Performance; 5 Postmodern Presentations: Questioning Boundaries of Representation; 6 The Politics of Identity and Exclusion; 7 Fragmented Representations of American Identity in the Theatre of the Vietnam War; 8 The 'NEA Four' and Performance Art: Making Visible the Invisible; Conclusion; Student Resources; IndexThis book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions. It focuses on representative plays and performance texts that experiment with form and content, discussing influential playwrights and performance artists such as Tennessee Williams, Adrienne Kennedy, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Charles Ludlum, Anna Deavere Smith, Karen Finley and Will Power, alongside avant-garde theatre groups. Saddik traces the development of contemporary drama since 1945, and discusses the cross-cultural impact of postwar British and EuropEdinburgh Critical GuidesAmerican drama20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican drama21st centuryHistory and criticismTheaterUnited StatesHistory20th centuryTheaterUnited StatesHistory21st centuryElectronic books.American dramaHistory and criticism.American dramaHistory and criticism.TheaterHistoryTheaterHistory812.5409Saddik Annette J.1966-965443MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458366803321Contemporary American drama2190395UNINA