03644nam 2200589 450 991079755040332120201023111955.01-4725-8503-81-4725-8504-610.5040/9781472585059(CKB)3710000000468407(EBL)2191156(MiAaPQ)EBC2191156(OCoLC)1201426881(CaBNVSL)mat72585059(CaBNVSL)9781472585059(EXLCZ)99371000000046840720201023d2020 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe contemporary American monologue performance and politics /Eddie PatersonLondon, England :Bloomsbury Methuen Drama,2020.London, England :Bloomsbury Publishing,20201 online resource (233 p.)Methuen Drama engage.Description based upon print version of record.1-4725-8501-1 Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-208) and index.Monologue in Western Drama -- Monologue in American Performance -- Confessional monologue and the legacy of Spalding Gray -- Post-punk monologue and the Performances of Laurie Anderson -- Rights monologue and the Work of Anna Deavere Smith -- Radical monologue and the Performance of Karen Finley -- Future Monologue."Talk-show confessions, online rants, stand-up routines, inspirational speeches, banal reflections and calls to arms: we live in an age of solo voices demanding to be heard. In The Contemporary American Monologue Eddie Paterson looks at the pioneering work of US artists Spalding Gray, Laurie Anderson, Anna Deavere Smith and Karen Finley, and the development of solo performance in the US as a method of cultural and political critique. Ironic confession, post-punk poetry, investigations of race and violence, and subversive polemic, this book reveals the link between the rise of radical monologue in the late 20th century and history of speechmaking, politics, civil rights, individual freedom and the American Dream in the United States. It shows how US artists are speaking back to the cultural, political and economic forces that shape the world. Eddie Patterson traces the importance of the monologue in Shakespeare, Brecht, Beckett, Chekov, Pinter, O'Neill and Williams, before offering a comprehensive analysis of several of the most influential and innovative American practitioners of monologue performance. The volume also contains an interview with artist Karen Finley, on the trajectory of her recent works. The Contemporary American Monologue constitutes the first book-length account of US monologists that links the tradition of oratory and speechmaking in the colony to the appearance of solo performance as a distinctly American phenomenon"--Provided by publisher.Methuen drama engage.OratoryUnited StatesHistory21st centuryAmerican drama21st centuryHistory and criticismMonologuesTheatre studiesbicsscOratoryHistoryAmerican dramaHistory and criticism.Monologues.Theatre studies808.5/109730905PER011000PER011020bisacshPaterson Eddie1542221NCaBNVSLCaBNVSLBOOK9910797550403321The contemporary American monologue3794760UNINA