American drama and the postmodern
By: by David K. Sauer
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Amherst, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604977578
Subjects: Postmodernism (Literature); History and criticism; American drama
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Theorizing contemporary American drama: fractured plots, fragmented in time, in space; title: (Post)modern feminism on the Broadway stage: Rachel Crothers and Wendy Wasserstein; title: Six degree of separation: Philip Barry's mimetic holiday and John Guare's performative postmodernism; title: Oleanna and The children's hour: misreading sexuality on the realistic stage; title: The language of (post)modernist tragedy: Desire under the elms and Buried child; title: Eugene O'Neill and August Wilson:  comings and goings between past and present; title: Magic realism: staging the invisible in (post)modern drama; title: Conclusion-staging a new world.