Urban Drama : The Metropolis in Contemporary North American Plays
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0230114539
ISBN-13
9780230114531
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 26th, 2011
Print length
239 Pages
Weight
436 grams
Dimensions
22.00 x 14.50 x 1.80 cms
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Identifying an apprehension about the nature and constitution of urbanism in North American plays, Westgate 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, and how urban crises inform the dramaturgy of contemporary playwrights.
***Listed in THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION''s Weekly Book List, July 11, 2011*** 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 Kushner''s Angels in America, Anna Deavere Smith''s Twilight Los Angeles, 1992, and David Henry Hwang''s 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.
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