| Description |
vi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Theater: Theory/text/performance |
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Theater--theory/text/performance
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| Contents |
American Stages (Curtain Raiser) / Jeffrey D. Mason -- Introduction / J. Ellen Gainor -- Pt. 1. Nation Then. The Theater and the Republic: Defining Party on Early Boston's Rival Stages / Ginger Strand. Archiving Culture: Performance and American Museums in the Earlier Nineteenth Century / Rosemarie K. Bank. Taming America as Actress: Augustin Daly, Ada Rehan, and the Discourse of Imperial Frontier Conquest / Kim Marra. American Vaudeville, American Empire / Leigh Woods. "The Most American Thing in America": Producing National Identities in Chautauqua, 1904-1932 / Charlotte Canning. "The Pageant Is the Thing": Black Nationalism and The Star of Ethiopia / David Krasner. "The Drama of Transformation": Settlement House Idealism and the Neighborhood Playhouse / Ann Larabee -- Pt. 2. Nation Now. "Speaking a Language That We Both Understand": Reconciling Feminism and Cultural Nationalism in Asian American Theater / Josephine Lee |
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Performing Aztlan: The Female Body as Cultural Critique in the Teatro of Cherrie Moraga / Tiffany Ana Lopez. Echoes from the Black (W)hole: An Examination of The America Play by Suzan-Lori Parks / Harry Elam and Alice Rayner. Marking Change, Marking America: Contemporary Performance and Men's Autobiographical Selves / Robert H. Vorlicky. Queering the Nation / David Savran. American Stages (Afterpiece) / Jeffrey D. Mason |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
American drama -- History and criticism.
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Cultural pluralism (Social sciences) in literature
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Cultural pluralism in literature.
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National characteristics, American, in literature.
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Nationalism and literature -- United States -- History.
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Theater and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Author |
Gainor, J. Ellen.
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Mason, Jeffrey D. (Jeffrey Daniel), 1952-
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| LC no. |
99006219 |
| ISBN |
0472087924 (paperback) |
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0472109855 (alk. paper) |
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