Old stories, new readings
Subtitle: the transforming power of American drama
By: edited by Miriam López-Rodríguez, Inmaculada Pineda-Hernández and Alfonso Ceballos Muñoz
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781443872249
Subjects: American drama; History and criticism; Storytelling in literature
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Miriam López-Rodríguez and Inmaculada Pineda-Hernández; title: Judith Sargent Murray Triumphant : The Medium as Rational Entertainment / Isabel Calderón; title: Tracing the Romance of Theatre in some Classic Nineteenth-Century Novels / María Ángeles Toda; title: The Influence of White Culture on the Sioux Ghost Dance of 1890 / Joshua E. Polster; title: Intracultural Communication in African American Drama :  From Pre-Emancipation to Early Twentieth Century / Jocelyn A. Brown; title: Elsie's Big Show : From Entertaining under Fire to Firing Stories in All Directions / Felicia Hardison Londré; title: Sex Machines : Futurism and Modernity in American Expressionist Theater / Yiyi López-Gándara; title: Triangular Transgressions : Tennessee Williams, The Purification's Debt to Federico García Lorca's Blood Wedding / José Badenes; title: Under House Arrest : The Family in American Drama / Henry Schvey; title: Arthur Miller's Plays Seen from a Feminist Perspective : Was Miller Sexist? / Christiane Desafy-Grignard; title: Storytelling and Subjectivity in the Selected Dramas of August Wilson and David Rabe / Ahmet Bese; title: Cancer on the American Popular Stage : Playing to a Sold Out House / Virginia Dakari; title: If These Walls Could Talk : Performing Histories in the Works of Suzan-Lori Parks / Nelson Barré; title: Freeing the Narrative : Interdisciplinary Methods for Exploring American Identity in La Chiusa's The Wild Party (2006) and Kander and Ebb's Curtains (2000) / Gary M. Grant, Nancy Grant and Dustyn Martincich; title: Visual Explorations of Metaphysical Ideas in the Works of Sarah Ruhl / Ola Kraszpulska; title: Love Triangles and Triangular Loves : A Home for Three in Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play / Noelia Hernando-Real; title: Defictionalizing Women Who Kill / Claudia Barnett; title: He Killed My Bird, or, Now that We're in Heaven / Claudia Barnett.