Urban drama: the metropolis in contemporary North American plays

Identifying an apprehension about the nature and constitution of urbanism in North American plays, Urban Drama examines how cities like New York City and Los Angeles became focal points for identity politics and social justice at the end of the twentieth century. In plays as different as Tony Kushne...

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1. Verfasser: Westgate, J. Chris (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Palgrave Macmillan 2011
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Zusammenfassung:Identifying an apprehension about the nature and constitution of urbanism in North American plays, Urban Drama examines how cities like New York City and Los Angeles became focal points for identity politics and social justice at the end of the twentieth century. In plays as different as Tony Kushners Angels in America, Anna Deavere Smiths Twilight Los Angeles, 1992, and David Henry Hwangs FOB, these concerns became spatialized against the urban environment, suggesting a shift of consciousness toward what critical geography has argued: The social is always spatial. Urban Drama interrogates how this shift informs playwriting in the 1980s and 1990s and inspires new modes of dramatic representation
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (X, 239 Seiten)
ISBN:9780230119581
DOI:10.1057/9780230119581

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