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Titre(s) : Violence in American drama [Texte imprimé] : essays on its staging, meanings and effects / edited by Alfonso Ceballos Muñoz, Ramón Espejo Romero, and Bernardo Muñoz Martínez
Publication : Jefferson (N.C.) : McFarland, c2011
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VI-288 p.) ; 23 cm
Comprend : Revolution and after: heroism and violence in early national plays about the American
Revolution / Amelia Howe Kritzer ; Violence averted only to return: visiting the archive
of "Pocahontas Plays" / Tamara Underiner ; The thrust for freedom from systems of
oppression: a century of suicide, prolicide and viricide in plays by American women
/ Cheryl Black ; Sane enough to kill: on women, madness and the theatricality of
violence in Susan Glaspell's The verge / Noelia Hernando-Real ; New critical approaches
to machinal: Sophie Treadwell's response to structural violence / Miriam Lopez Rodriguez
; Working women and violence in Jazz Era American drama / Jerry Dickey ; The guns
sing in harmony: Johnny Johnson and the musical war / Anne Beggs ; The violence at
the top of the stairs: domestic dystopia in Inge's Heartland / Dorothy Chansky ;
Psychodrama strategies that protect Tennessee Williams' late-play characters from
a violent world / Dana Rufolo ; "Actual explosions and actual brutality": Baraka,
violence and the Black arts stage / Diana Rosenhagen ; Invisibility's contusions:
violence in Cherrie Moraga's Heroes and saints and The hungry woman and Luis Valdez's
Zoot suit / Irma Mayorga ; Threats, bad language and imperatives: verbal violence
in politically (in)correct institutional speech in American drama at the end of the
millennium / Yiyi Lopez Gándara ; "Arms in women's hands": the subversion of the
victim role of women in Heather McDonald's Dream of a common language / Maria Dolores
Narbona Carrion ; Rebecca Gilman's exploration of gender conditioning as a factor
in violence against women / Michael Solomonson ; Neil Labute, vigilante of violence:
an examination of his trilogy The shape of things, Fat pig and Reasons to Be pretty
/ N. J. Stanley ; Challenging the American dream: U.S. theater and the continuum
of state violence / Marta Fernandez Morales ; Terrorist violence and its (dis)figurations
in three American post-9/11 plays / Markus Wessendorf ; The cancer body (politic)
of American violence: John Guare's A few stout individuals / Virginia Dakari ; Affecting
the audience: Gina Gionfriddo's After Ashley / Barbara Ozieblo.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"This interdisciplinary collection of 19 essays addresses violence on the American
stage. Topics include the revolutionary period and the role of violence in establishing
national identity, violence by and against ethnic groups, and females as perpetrators
and victims, as well as state and psychological violence and violence within the family"--Provided
by publisher
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Ceballos Muñoz, Alfonso. Éditeur scientifique
Espejo Romero, Ramón. Éditeur scientifique
Muñoz Martínez, Bernardo (19..-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Théâtre (genre littéraire) américain -- 20e siècle -- Thèmes, motifs
Violence -- Dans la littérature
Violence -- Au théâtre
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780786463930 (softcover) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0786463937 (softcover) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42569008s
Notice n° :
FRBNF42569008
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