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A Critical Companion to Lynn Nottage

Author : Jocelyn L. Buckner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317586263
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book A Critical Companion to Lynn Nottage written by Jocelyn L. Buckner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Critical Companion to Lynn Nottage

Author : Jocelyn L. Buckner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317586255
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Book Synopsis A Critical Companion to Lynn Nottage by : Jocelyn L. Buckner

Download or read book A Critical Companion to Lynn Nottage written by Jocelyn L. Buckner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Cambridge Companion to American Theatre since 1945

Author : Julia Listengarten
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108570267
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to American Theatre since 1945 written by Julia Listengarten and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to American Theatre since 1945 provides an overview and analysis of developments in the organization and practices of American theatre. It examines key demographic and geographical shifts American theatre after 1945 experienced in spectatorship, and addresses the economic, social, and political challenges theatre artists have faced across cultural climates and geographical locations. Specifically, it explores artistic communities, collaborative practices, and theatre methodologies across mainstream, regional, and experimental theatre practices, forms, and expressions. As American theatre has embraced diversity in practice and representation, the volume examines the various creative voices, communities, and perspectives that prior to the 1940s was mostly excluded from the theatrical landscape. This diversity has led to changing dramaturgical and theatrical languages that take us in to the twenty-first century. These shifting perspectives and evolving forms of theatrical expressions paved the ground for contemporary American theatrical innovation.

Teaching Edith Wharton’s Major Novels and Short Fiction

Author : Ferdâ Asya
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030527425
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Book Synopsis Teaching Edith Wharton’s Major Novels and Short Fiction by : Ferdâ Asya

Download or read book Teaching Edith Wharton’s Major Novels and Short Fiction written by Ferdâ Asya and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book translates recent scholarship into pedagogy for teaching Edith Wharton’s widely celebrated and less-known fiction to students in the twenty-first century. It comprises such themes as American and European cultures, material culture, identity, sexuality, class, gender, law, history, journalism, anarchism, war, addiction, disability, ecology, technology, and social media in historical, cultural, transcultural, international, and regional contexts. It includes Wharton’s works compared to those of other authors, taught online, read in foreign universities, and studied in film adaptations.

Theater of State

Author : James Ball
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810141132
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Theater of State written by James Ball and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative study of performance in international relations, James R. Ball III asks why states and their representatives come to the United Nations to perform for a global audience and how those audiences may intervene in the spectacle of global politics. Theater of State looks at key spaces in which global politics play out: in debating forums of the UN, at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, and in peacekeeping operations in Africa and the Middle East, as well as in a variety of related media productions. Ball argues that culture and politics form a unified field organized by the theatricality of its actors and the engaged spectatorship of its audiences. He provides a theory of global political spectatorship: of how the world watches itself in institutions and beyond, and of what citizens and diplomats do by watching. This study of the lived experience of spectacular politics on the world stage draws on theories of theater, performance, and politics to offer new ways of approaching issues of war, cosmopolitanism, international justice, governance, and activism. Situated at the nexus of two disciplines, performance studies and political science, this volume encourages conversations between the two so that each might offer lessons to the other.

Modern American Drama: Playwriting 2000-2009

Author : Julia Listengarten
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350024767
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Modern American Drama: Playwriting 2000-2009 written by Julia Listengarten and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major playwrights and their plays to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * Theresa Rebeck: Omnium Gatherum (2003), Mauritius (2007), and The Understudy (2008); * Sarah Ruhl: Eurydice (2003), Clean House (2004), and In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) (2009); * Lynn Nottage: Intimate Apparel (2003), Fabulation or Re-Education of Undine (2004), and Ruined (2008); * Charles Mee: Big Love (2000), Wintertime (2005), and Hotel Cassiopeia (2006).

Theatre Symposium, Vol. 29

Author : Andrew Gibb
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817370161
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Theatre Symposium, Vol. 29 written by Andrew Gibb and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers solicited from the presenters for the cancelled 2020 Southeastern Theatre Conference.

Performing Trauma in Central Africa

Author : Laura Edmondson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253032466
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Performing Trauma in Central Africa written by Laura Edmondson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-26 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the stakes of cultural production in a time of war? How is artistic expression prone to manipulation by the state and international humanitarian organizations? In the charged political terrain of post-genocide Rwanda, post-civil war Uganda, and recent violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Laura Edmondson explores performance through the lens of empire. Instead of celebrating theatre productions as expression of cultural agency and resilience, Edmondson traces their humanitarian imperatives to a place where global narratives of violence take precedence over local traditions and audiences. Working at the intersection of performance and trauma, Edmondson reveals how artists and cultural workers manipulate narratives in the shadow of empire and how empire, in turn, infiltrates creative capacities.

International Law's Invisible Frames

Author : Andrea Bianchi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192663291
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book International Law's Invisible Frames written by Andrea Bianchi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is international law, and how does it work? This book argues that our answers to these fundamental questions are shaped by a variety of social cognition and knowledge production processes. These processes act as invisible frames, through which we understand international law. To better conceive the frames within which international law moves and performs, we must understand how psychological and socio-cultural factors affect decision-making in an international legal process. This includes identifying the groups of people and institutions that shape and alter the prevailing discourse in international law, and unearthing the hidden meaning of the various mythologies that populate and influence our normative world. With chapters from leading experts in the discipline, employing insights from sociology, psychology, and behavioural science, this book investigates the mechanisms that allow us to apprehend and intellectually represent the social practice of international law. It unveils the hidden or unnoticed processes by which our understanding of international law is formed, and helps readers to unlearn some of the presuppositions that inform our largely unquestioned beliefs about international law.

Theatre History Studies 2019, Vol. 38

Author : Sara Freeman
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817371133
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Theatre History Studies 2019, Vol. 38 written by Sara Freeman and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Community Boundaries and Border Crossings

Author : Kristen Lillvis
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498539491
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Community Boundaries and Border Crossings written by Kristen Lillvis and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the overarching interconnected themes of community boundaries and border crossings, this collection explores issues of diaspora, trans-nationality, cultural hybridity, home, and identity that are central to ethnic women writers.

Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies

Author : Cassander L. Smith
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319767860
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies written by Cassander L. Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies brings into conversation two fields—Early Modern Studies and Black Studies—that traditionally have had little to say to each other. This disconnect is the product of current scholarly assumptions about a lack of archival evidence that limits what we can say about those of African descent before modernity. This volume posits that the limitations are not in the archives, but in the methods we have constructed for locating and examining those archives. The essays that make up this volume offer new critical approaches to black African agency and the conceptualization of blackness in early modern literary works, historical documents, material and visual cultures, and performance culture. Ultimately, this critical anthology revises current understandings about racial discourse and the cultural contributions of black Africans in early modernity and in the present across the globe.

Food and Theatre on the World Stage

Author : Dorothy Chansky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317618017
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Food and Theatre on the World Stage written by Dorothy Chansky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Putting food and theatre into direct conversation, this volume focuses on how food and theatre have operated for centuries as partners in the performative, symbolic, and literary making of meaning. Through case studies, literary analyses, and performance critiques, contributors examine theatrical work from China, Japan, India, Greece, Italy, France, Germany, England, the United States, Chile, Argentina, and Zimbabwe, addressing work from classical, popular, and contemporary theatre practices. The investigation of uses of food across media and artistic genres is a burgeoning area of scholarly investigation, yet regarding representation and symbolism, literature and film have received more attention than theatre, while performance studies scholars have taken the lead in examining the performative aspects of food events. This collection looks across dramatic genres, historical periods, and cultural contexts, and at food in all of its socio-political, material complexity to examine the particular problems and potentials of invoking and using food in live theatre. The volume considers food as a transhistorical, global phenomenon across theatre genres, addressing the explosion of food studies at the end of the twentieth century that has shown how food is a crucial aspect of cultural identity.

Performing Dream Homes

Author : Emily Klein
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030015815
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Performing Dream Homes written by Emily Klein and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology explores how theatre and performance use home as the prism through which we reconcile shifts in national, cultural, and personal identity. Whether examining parlor dramas and kitchen sink realism, site-specific theatre, travelling tent shows, domestic labor, border performances, fences, or front yards, these essays demonstrate how dreams of home are enmeshed with notions of neighborhood, community, politics, and memory. Recognizing the family home as a symbolic space that extends far beyond its walls, the nine contributors to this collection study diverse English-language performances from the US, Ireland, and Canada. These scholars of theatre history, dramaturgy, performance, cultural studies, feminist and gender studies, and critical race studies also consider the value of home at a time increasingly defined by crises of homelessness — a moment when major cities face affordable housing shortages, when debates about homeland and citizenship have dominated international elections, and when conflicts and natural disasters have displaced millions. Global struggles over immigration, sanctuary, refugee status and migrant labor make the stakes of home and homelessness ever more urgent and visible, as this timely collection reveals.

Contemporary Black Theatre and Performance

Author : DeRon S. Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350252948
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Black Theatre and Performance written by DeRon S. Williams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are Black artists, activists, and pedagogues wielding acts of rebellion, activism, and solidarity to precipitate change? How have contemporary performances impacted Black cultural, social, and political struggles? What are the ways in which these acts and artists engage varied Black identities and explore shared histories? Contemporary Black Theatre and Performance investigates these questions to illuminate the relationship between performance, identity, intersectionality, and activism in North America and beyond. It features contributions from scholars, artists, and activists from across disciplines who explore the nuances and varied forms of Black performance in the 21st century while incorporating performance-based methodologies and queer and black feminist theories. Among the many topics addressed by contributors are antiracist pedagogy, Black queer identity formation in Black playwriting, digital blackface, and Black women's subversive practices within contemporary popular culture. It encompasses dramatic analysis of Lynn Nottage's Sweat, Tarell Alvin McCraney's Choir Boy, and acts of resistance during the Black Lives Matter summer 2020 highway protests. A series of conversations with artists and scholars are woven throughout the book's three sections, including with playwrights Christina Anderson and Donja R. Love, and Willa Taylor, Director of Education and Community Engagement at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago.

Climate Hazards, Disasters, and Gender Ramifications

Author : Catarina Kinnvall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429756275
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Climate Hazards, Disasters, and Gender Ramifications written by Catarina Kinnvall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the challenges of living with climate disasters, in addition to the existing gender inequalities that prevail and define social, economic and political conditions. Social inequalities have consequences for the everyday lives of women and girls where power relations, institutional and socio-cultural practices make them disadvantaged in terms of disaster preparedness and experience. Chapters in this book unravel how gender and masculinity intersect with age, ethnicity, sexuality and class in specific contexts around the globe. It looks at the various kinds of difficulties for particular groups before, during and after disastrous events such as typhoons, flooding, landslides and earthquakes. It explores how issues of gender hierarchies, patriarchal structures and masculinity are closely related to gender segregation, institutional codes of behaviour and to a denial of environmental crisis. This book stresses the need for a gender-responsive framework that can provide a more holistic understanding of disasters and climate change. A critical feminist perspective uncovers the gendered politics of disaster and climate change. This book will be useful for practitioners and researchers working within the areas of Climate Change response, Gender Studies, Disaster Studies and International Relations.

Reframing the Musical

Author : Sarah K. Whitfield
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350316628
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Reframing the Musical written by Sarah K. Whitfield and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical and inclusive edited collection offers an overview of the musical in relation to issues of race, culture and identity. Bringing together contributions from cultural, American and theatre studies for the first time, the chapters offer fresh perspectives on musical theatre history, calling for a radical and inclusive new approach. By questioning ideas about what the musical is about and who it for, this groundbreaking book retells the story of the musical, prioritising previously neglected voices to reshape our understanding of the form. Timely and engaging, this is required reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of musical theatre. It offers an intersectional approach which will also be invaluable for theatre practitioners.