| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 227 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
On the table: Crumbs of freedom and fugitivity-a twenty-first century (re)reading of Crumbs from the Table of Joy / Jaye Austin Williams -- Guess who's coming to dinner: choral performance in Mud, River, Stone / Jennifer L. Hayes -- Diasporic desires in Las Meninas / Jocelyn L. Buckner -- Intimate spaces/public places: locating sites of migration, connection, and identity in Intimate Apparel / Adrienne Macki Braconi -- "It's all about a rabbit, or it ain't": the folkloric significations of Lynn Nottage / Faedra Chatard Carpenter -- Vera Stark at the crossroads of history / Harvey Young -- Melodrama, sensation, and activism in Ruined / Jennifer-Scott Mobley -- Renegotiating realism: hybridity of form and political potentiality in Ruined / Jeff Paden -- Land rights and womb rights: forging difficult diasporic kinships in Ruined / Esther J. Terry -- On creativity and collaboration: a conversation with Lynn Nottage, Seret Scott, and Kate Whoriskey / Jocelyn L. Buckner |
| Summary |
A Critical Companion to Lynn Nottage places this renowned, award-winning playwright's contribution to American theatre in scholarly context. The volume covers Nottage's plays, productions, activism, and artistic collaborations to display the extraordinary breadth and depth of her work. The collection contains chapters on each of her major works, and includes a special three-chapter section devoted to Ruined, winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. The anthology also features an interview about collaboration and creativity with Lynn Nottage and two of her most frequent directors, Seret Scott and Kate Whoriskey |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Nottage, Lynn -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Nottage, Lynn fast |
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African American women dramatists.
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American drama -- African American authors -- History and criticism
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African American women in literature.
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DRAMA -- American.
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African American women dramatists
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African American women in literature
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American drama -- African American authors
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Buckner, Jocelyn L., editor
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| ISBN |
9781315742489 |
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1315742489 |
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