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Author : Bernhard Reitz
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ISBN 13 : 9783884763537
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Download or read book Race and Religion in Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English written by Bernhard Reitz and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ondřej Pilný
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137513187
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Grotesque in Contemporary Anglophone Drama written by Ondřej Pilný and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grotesque features have been among the chief characteristics of drama in English since the 1990s. This new book examines the varieties of the grotesque in the work of some of the most original playwrights of the last three decades (including Enda Walsh, Philip Ridley, Tim Crouch and Suzan-Lori Parks), focusing in particular on ethical and political issues that arise from the use of the grotesque.
Author : Craig R. Prentiss
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814708080
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
Download or read book Staging Faith written by Craig R. Prentiss and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years between the Harlem Renaissance and World War II, African American playwrights gave birth to a vital black theater movement in the U.S. It was a movement overwhelmingly concerned with the role of religion in black identity. In a time of profound social transformation fueled by a massive migration from the rural south to the urban‑industrial centers of the north, scripts penned by dozens of black playwrights reflected cultural tensions, often rooted in class, that revealed competing conceptions of religion's role in the formation of racial identity. Black playwrights pointed in quite different ways toward approaches to church, scripture, belief, and ritual that they deemed beneficial to the advancement of the race. Their plays were important not only in mirroring theological reflection of the time, but in helping to shape African American thought about religion in black communities. The religious themes of these plays were in effect arguments about the place of religion in African American lives. In Staging Faith, Craig R. Prentiss illuminates the creative strategies playwrights used to grapple with religion. With a lively and engaging style, the volume brings long forgotten plays to life as it chronicles the cultural and religious fissures that marked early twentieth century African American society. Craig R. Prentiss is Professor of Religious Studies at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri. He is the editor of Religion and the Creation of Race and Ethnicity: An Introduction (New York University Press, 2003).
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Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)
Download or read book Contemporary Drama in English written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Beusterien
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838756140
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Eye on Race written by John Beusterien and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racism in the modern nation state is based on a Continental and an American model. In the Continental model, the racist differentiates the raced individual by religion. Because this raced individual is indistinguishable from the racist, a narrative is written to see that individual. In turn, in the American model the racist differentiates the raced individual based on skin color. Because the sign of difference is obvious, no story is written to justify racist thinking. By 1550, both models form part of imperial thinking in the Iberian world system. An Eye on Race: Perspectives from Theater in Imperial Spain describes these models at work in imperial Spanish theater. The study reveals how the display of blood in drama serves the Continental model and how the display of skin color serves the American model. It also elucidates how Miguel de Cervantes celebrates a subaltern aesthetic as he discards both racial paradigms. John Beusterien is Associate Professor of Spanish at Texas Tech University.
Author : Kenneth Nally
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443803650
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)
Download or read book "Celebrating Confusion" written by Kenneth Nally and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-14 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though widely lauded as one of the most creative and challenging forces in Irish theatre Frank McGuinness’s plays have often met with a tempestuous reception. This new work details the significance of key productions of his plays in the context of Ireland’s culture and society. Charting McGuinness’s development as a dramatist from The Factory Girls through to Gates of Gold it combines cultural, political and theatrical analysis to position McGuinness as the most significant Irish playwright of his generation. Textual analysis supports considerations of theatrical performance to show how visual art, stagecraft, sculpture and song are central to our understanding of McGuinness’s theatre. Drawing forth the range of sexual, familial and national identities found in McGuinness’s work this book shows the significance of symbols in theatre that often seeks to confuse the simplicities of absolutes in order to show the complexities of difference. Wide-ranging, theoretically astute and written in a lucid and engaging style, Celebrating Confusion will appeal to all readers who are interested in Irish Theatre and its intersection with the politics and culture of contemporary Ireland.
Author : Mary Floyd-Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521810562
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama written by Mary Floyd-Wilson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Author : Helen Lojek
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813213569
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)
Download or read book Contexts for Frank McGuinness's Drama written by Helen Lojek and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contexts for Frank McGuinness's Drama is the most complete consideration of the playwright yet published, including discussion of his original stage work through Gates of Gold (2002) and highlighting the connections between McGuinness's creativity and the biographical, geographical, social, and literary factors that have shaped his world."
Author : Helen Gilbert
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136218173
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)
Download or read book Postcolonial Plays written by Helen Gilbert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of contemporary postcolonial plays demonstrates the extraordinary vitality of a body of work that is currently influencing the shape of contemporary world theatre. This anthology encompasses both internationally admired 'classics' and previously unpublished texts, all dealing with imperialism and its aftermath. It includes work from Canada, the Carribean, South and West Africa, Southeast Asia, India, New Zealand and Australia. A general introduction outlines major themes in postcolonial plays. Introductions to individual plays include information on authors as well as overviews of cultural contexts, major ideas and performance history. Dramaturgical techniques in the plays draw on Western theatre as well as local performance traditions and include agit-prop dialogue, musical routines, storytelling, ritual incantation, epic narration, dance, multimedia presentation and puppetry. The plays dramatize diverse issues, such as: *globalization * political corruption * race and class relations *slavery *gender and sexuality *media representation *nationalism
Author : Celine Joana Khoury
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Becoming English written by Celine Joana Khoury and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation explores "racial capitalism" as it relates to late-medieval and early modern English literature and literary culture, especially drama, in order to reframe the stories we tell about human difference as we seek to reconstruct our contested pasts. This dissertation uses methodologies employed in critical race theory (CRT) and critical white studies (CWS) to re-examine the long history of Western race thinking and racialization alongside the development of emergent capitalism. It examines "whiteness" in English drama as a racial category not solely defined by skin color. The purchase this dissertation gets from focusing on "race" is in an illumination of systemic racism--in the premodern past and today. The first chapter illuminates systemic racism by examining England's history as the earliest "nation" to expel its Jewish population (in 1290). This chapter analyzes Anglo-Jewish history, which has been marginalized in the field of English history, to study England's role in the forefront of antisemitic thought and practice. By close reading a fifteenth-century drama, the Croxton Play of the Sacrament, this dissertation shows the relationship between antisemitic thought and mercantilism. The second and third chapters illuminate the development of capitalism and systemic racism by examining the invention of "whiteness" and "Christian identity" on and off stage. Throughout these chapters, the English theater is an important site in the development of racial capitalism--Elizabethan theatrical companies like the Lord Chamberlain's Men at the Globe were one of the earliest forms of the joint-stock company--and an important site of cultural production. This dissertation examines how racial constructs work together to produce and reproduce processes of exclusion, systems of signification, and social hierarchies to argue that the invention of the "white race" is rooted in racial and class-based threats to the established social order.
