UID:
almahu_9949703622802882
Format:
1 online resource (230 pages)
ISBN:
9789401202473
Series Statement:
Postmodern studies ; 37
Content:
The Theater of Transformation: Postmodernism in American Drama offers a fresh and innovative reading of the contemporary experimental American theater scene and navigates through the contested and contentious relationship between postmodernism and contemporary drama. This book addresses gender and class as well as racial issues in the context of a theoretical discussion of dramatic texts, textuality, and performance. Transformation is contemporary drama's answer to the questions of postmodernism and a major technique in the development of a postmodern language for the stage. In order to demonstrate the multi-faceted nature of the postmodern theater of transformation, this study draws on a wide range of plays: from early experimental plays of the 1960s by Jean-Claude van Itallie through feminist plays by Megan Terry and Rochelle Owens to more recent drama by the African-American playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. The Theater of Transformation: Postmodernism in American Drama is written for anyone interested in contemporary American drama and theater as well as in postmodernism and contemporary literary theory. It appeals even more broadly to a readership intrigued by the ubiquitous aspects of popular culture, by feminism and ethnicity, and by issues pertaining to the so-called 'society of spectacle' and the study of contemporary media.
Note:
Preliminary Material -- Introduction: The Postmodern Condition of Drama -- Theorizing Dramatic Form: Aspects of Transformation in Postmodern Drama -- The Postmodern Sense of Self -- The Dramatic Text, Performance, and Postmodern Authorship -- Theatrical Space and Mediatized Culture -- Jean-Claude van Itallie: Mediatized Culture and the Postmodern Self -- Transformative Selves in \'Interview\' -- \'TV\': The Screen Takes Over -- \'Motel\': Cyborgean Visions of American Motel Culture -- Megan Terry and Rochelle Owens: Transformation and Postmodern Feminism -- Megan Terry's Keep Tightly Closed in a Cool Dry Place: Transforming the Prison House of the Self -- Emma Instigated Me: Rochelle Owens's Play \'in the process of becoming\' -- Suzan-Lori Parks: \'Rep and Rev\' Postmodernism -- Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom: \'Histironical Amendments\' and the Third Space -- The America Play: Playing America -- Works Cited -- Secondary Sources.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Schmidt, Kerstin, 1971- Theater of transformation. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2005 ISBN 904201895X
Language:
English
Keywords:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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