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Early American drama
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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Feminist Theory and Postwar American Drama
… feminism as a critical tool, to be applied to drama. Feminist theory from anthropology, psychology, literary criticism, and film theory is summarized and one theorist from each field is selected to serve as an example of how feminism in that field can illuminate drama written by both women and …
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The Alienated Hero in Contemporary Spanish-American Drama
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Three Puritanical Stage Figures in the American Drama
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The dialogism of self and other in contemporary American drama
… 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 new to the …
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Mnemopoetics. Memory and Slavery in African-American Drama (1939-1996)
… and contextual analysis of selected African American plays, I have probed the various mnemopoetic strategies used by the playwrights to explore a past branded by the experience of slavery. The mnemopoetics of slavery appears to be irreducibly linked to a militant mnemopolitics of identity.
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Transnational Feminism in 21st Century Black American Drama and Performance
“Transnational Feminism in 21st Century Black American Drama and Performance” explores twenty-first century works from playwrights who I group together loosely under the current transnational moment of playwriting. I include works from Tarell Alvin McCraney, Danai Gurira, Nikkole Salter, Lynn …
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Stage(d) mothers: mother-daughter tropes in Twentieth-Century American drama
… relationship in Twentieth-Century American drama. Recent scholarship has shown that such representations can, however, have greater import than simply as representations of an interpersonal relationship. Instead, representations of mother-daughter relationships often represent and …
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Persistence of Memory: Revision, Nostalgia, and Resistance in Contemporary American Drama
… focuses on the usages of memory in contemporary American drama. Analyzing selected mainstream and alternative dramatic texts, The Persistence of Memory is a study of personal and communal reflections of the past within contemporary plays. The introduction provides examples from modern plays, …
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The Search for Identity: A Comparative Study in Contemporary Latin American Drama
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The disintegrated ‘dream’: Immigrant plays and modern American drama in the 21st-century
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Contemporary Spanish American drama of denunciation and social protest: the case of Argentina and Chile
<p>This study deals with the Latin American theater of social protest and denunciation, one of the most recurrent and representative variants of contemporary Latin American drama. The introductory analysis attempts to show the significance of this style of dramatic composition in the general …
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The quest for identity of African American women from 1939 to 2000 in postmodern American Drama
… conducted to explore the oppression of African American women as well as to determine how their identity was in a struggle to gain in a selection of Postmodern American plays. Sharing the experiences of African American women and their black community of that time, represented as a journey …
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Broadening the circle : the evolution of survivance and mimicry as theme in selected Native American drama.
From its beginning the modern Native American Literary Dramatic Project has been rooted in the desire to define and preserve a voice driven to the brink of extinction by the forces of Euroamerican colonization. Over time, as the threat of outright extinction has waned, Native American playwrights …
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The Greek Pastures: A Modern Mystery
One of the more interesting dramatic phenomena of the past decade is Marc Connelly’s play, The Green Pastures. The play is unique both in subject and in method. It has for its subject a Southern Negro’s imaginative picture of Biblical history; for its method, a narrative sequence of episodes …
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Staging Intervention: Native Women, Decolonization, and the American Theatre
"The terrain of American theatre scholarship has seen much change in the late twentieth century; as scholars investigate intercultural and post-colonial, African-American, feminist, and other ""marginal"" theatres, the discipline's boundaries must shift. Still, although American Indian people today …
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‘I used to be subversive, but now I’m gay’: representations of queer identities on the American stage from the postwar to the 1990s
… masculinities constructed and represented in American drama, theatre and performance throughout the second half of the twentieth century, thus assessing the ‘queer’ challenges these masculinities present to hegemonic ‘heteronormativity.’ To identify the historical, social and cultural …
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Racial Encounters In The American Theatre: Whiteness And Eugene O'Neill, Blackness And August Wilson
… investigated racial representations in modern American drama. Even fewer scholars have undertaken to analyze depictions of whiteness in American letters, although “white studies” is slowly assuming legitimacy in the academy in the 1990s. “Racial Encounters in the American Theatre” therefore …
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Performing (Non)Profit, Race, and American Identity in the Nation's Capital: Arena Stage, 1950-2010
… brands itself as the largest theatre devoted to "American Voices." By capitalizing upon its location in the nation's capital; staging racially liberal dramas; and developing institutional practices that help the institution to accumulate economic, cultural, and symbolic capital, the theatre has …
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"""I Love Myself When I Am Laughing"": Tracing the Origins of Black Folk Comedy in Zora Neale Hurston's Plays Before ""Mule Bone"
… credited as the 'first' attempted by African Americans to create 'Negro folk comedy.' This dissertation is driven from a question to the recent scholarship's tacit consent on such historic importance imposed on this play. This study suggests a possibility that there existed other works from …
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