Staging Difference
Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre and Drama - Second Printing
2nd Edition
Published on 29. August 2012
396 pages
978-1-4539-1015-3 (ISBN)
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This volume seeks to determine how contemporary American playwrights and theatre practitioners translate the current debate on cultural pluralism in the United States. While offering re-visions of the Melting Pot, they often challenge its idealistic assumptions, thus inscribing in their work the cultural difference of minorities. Up to now, scholars have studied isolated aspects of this phenomenon. Staging Difference tries to offer a more comprehensive vision, examining the influence of multiculturalism both on performance and dramatic literature.
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The Contributors: Sarah Blackstone, Deborah Wood Holton, Bruce A. McConachie, Felicia Hardison Londré, Martha Bower, Georges-Michel Sarotte, Alain Piette, Robert Cooperman, John V. Antush, Bette Mandl, Harry J. Elam, Jr., Patricia R. Schroeder, Daniel J. Watermeier, Beverly Bronson Smith, Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei, Kim Marra, Ronald R. Miller, James A. Robinson, Johan Callens, James S. Moy, Granger Babcock, Glenda Frank, Yvonne Shafer, Savas Patsalidis, Richard Wattenberg, Marc Maufort.
The Editor: Marc Maufort teaches English and American literature at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), where he earned his Ph.D. in 1986. As a fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation, he studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he obtained his M.A. in Theatre and Drama in 1983. Dr. Maufort is the author of Songs of American Experience: The Vision of O'Neill and Melville (Peter Lang, 1990). He has lectured widely and written extensively on American and Canadian drama in various scholarly journals. He is the editor of the book, Eugene O'Neill and the Emergence of American Drama (1989).
The Editor: Marc Maufort teaches English and American literature at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), where he earned his Ph.D. in 1986. As a fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation, he studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he obtained his M.A. in Theatre and Drama in 1983. Dr. Maufort is the author of Songs of American Experience: The Vision of O'Neill and Melville (Peter Lang, 1990). He has lectured widely and written extensively on American and Canadian drama in various scholarly journals. He is the editor of the book, Eugene O'Neill and the Emergence of American Drama (1989).
Content
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Marc Maufort: Staging Difference: A Challenge to the American Melting Pot 1
- Cultural Pluralism and Performance 7
- Sarah Blackstone: Simplifying the Native American: Wild West Shows Exhibit the "Indian" 9
- Beverly Bronson Smith: The Semiotics of Difference: Representations of Ethnicity and Nativism in Early Twentieth Century American Theatre 19
- Deborah Wood Holton: Who Do You See When You Look At Me? Black Core Values and African American Identity in Performance 31
- Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei: Intercultural Directing: Revitalizing Force or Spiritual Rape? 45
- Bruce A. McConachie: The "Oriental" Musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein and the U.S. War in Southeast Asia 57
- Kim Marra: Marginal Experience/Mainstream Vision in the Theatrical Career of Zelda (Paldi) Sears 75
- Felicia Hardison Londré: Confronting Shakespeare's "Political Incorrectness" in Production: Contemporary American Audiences and the New " Problem Plays" 85
- The Canon of American Drama and Cultural Difference 108
- Ronald R. Miller: Eugene O'Neill's First Transcultural Epic: "Universal History" in The Fountain 99
- Martha Bower: The Pathology of Resistance to Cultural Assimilation in Eugene O'Neill's Late Plays 111
- James A. Robinson: Both His Sons: Arthur Miller's The Price and Jewish Assimilation 121
- Georges-Michel Sarotte: Fluidity and Differentiation in Three Plays by Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 141
- Johan Callens: Sam Shepard's Inter/National Stage 157
- Alain Piette: The Devil's Advocate: David Mamet's Oleanna and Political Correctness 173
- The Emergence of a New Multicultural Drama 200
- James S. Moy: Asian American Visibility: Touring Fierce Racial Geographies 191
- Robert Cooperman: New Theatrical Statements: Asian-Western Mergers in the Early Plays of David Henry Hwang 201
- Granger Babcock: Looking for a Third Space: El Pachuco and Chicano Nationalism in Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit 215
- John V Antush: The Internal Third World Voice and Postcolonial Literature: René Marqués's The Oxcart 227
- Glenda Frank: The Struggle to Affirm: The Image of Jewish-Americans on Stage 245
- Bette Mandl: "Alive Still, In You:" Memory and Silence in A Shayna Maidel 259
- Yvonne Shafer: Breaking Barriers: August Wilson 267
- Harry J. Elam, Jr.: Of Angels and Transcendence: An Analysis of Fences by August Wilson and Roosters by Milcha Sanchez-Scott 287
- Savas Patsalidis: Adrienne Kennedy's Heterotopias and the (Im)possibilities of the (Black) Female Self 301
- Patricia R. Schroeder: Re-Reading Alice Childress 323
- Richard Wattenberg: Sophie Treadwell and the Frontier Myth: Western Motifs in Machinal and Hope for a Harvest 339
- Daniel J. Watermeier: The Search for Self: Attachment, Loss and Recovery in The Heidi Chronicles 351
- Appendices 363
- Robert Cooperman: Across the Boundaries of Cultural Identity: An Interview with David Henry Hwang 365
- Marc Maufort, with the assistance of Francine Lercangée and Myriam Lodeweyckx: Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre and Drama: A Selected Bibliography 375
- Index 389
- Notes on Contributors 393
