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From the Individual to the Collective: Community in August Wilson and Tony Kushner
… study examines the playwrights August Wilson and Tony Kushner as "political" artists whose work, while positing very different definitions of "community," offers a similar critique of an American tendency toward a kind of misguided, dangerous individualism that precludes "interconnection." I begin …
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Speaking of the Body: The Maternal Body, Race, and Language in the Plays of Cherrie Moraga, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Tony Kushner
… Suzan - Lori Parks’s Red Letter Plays , and Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul . In order to examine the maternal body and its position as a highly stigmatized object, my thesis will weave together three diverse theatrical presentations from 21st century playwrights in order to both compose a …
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A Dybyuk's journey : a directorial process of Tony Kushner's "A Dybbuk"
… and adaptations, including the adaptation by Tony Kushner which was used for this production. The life of the playwright and the world of the play, historically and culturally were also researched. This investigation is outlined in Chapter One. This is followed by a detailed Directorial …
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A Stage for a Bima: American Jewish Theater and the Politics of Representation
… four, I discuss how playwrights Larry Kramer and Tony Kushner have linked Jewish and gay stereotypes and experiences in order to complicate contemporary political paradigms that tend to lump all traditionally disenfranchised groups under the same umbrella. Finally, in chapter five, I discuss how …
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A Queer Genealogy of "Havruta": Study Partnership as Intimate Relationship Between Men in Jewish Literature
… S. An-sky, S.Y. Agnon, I.B. Singer, Tony Kushner, Jyl Lynn Felman, Michael Lowenthal, Evan Fallenberg, and others—re-articulate this literary tradition of homoerotic scholarship and havruta intimacy in ways that both align with and challenge modern gender and sexual categories. These …
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The dialogism of self and other in contemporary American drama
This work is interdisciplinary in orientation and brings together American theatre (and culture) and contemporary ethical philosophy. I am introducing the French philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas and his theory of Self and Other to an analysis of contemporary American drama—a mode of approach that is …