Signatures of the past
Subtitle: cultural memory in contemporary Anglophone North American drama
By: Marc Maufort & Caroline De Wagter (eds.).
Contributors: Maufort, Marc.; De Wagter, Caroline.
Series: Dramaturgies -- no. 24
Publisher: P.I.E. Peter Lang
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bruxelles; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789052014548
Subjects: Canadian drama -- Minority authors -- History and criticism; Canadian drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American drama -- Minority authors -- History and criticism; American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Collective memory in literature; Minorities in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Theater and society -- Canada -- History -- 20th century; Theater and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Signatures of cultural memory / Marc Maufort; title: "Hopeful monsters and doomed freaks" : evolutionary overtones in Canadian and American drama / Craig Walker; title: Remembering Africa, performing cultural memory : Lorraine Hansberry, Suzan-Lori Parks and Djanet Sears / Harry J. Elam; title: Performing intercultural memory in the diasporic present : the case of Toronto / Ric Knowles; title: "The ground on which I stand" : rewriting history, African Canadian style / Jacqueline Petropoulos; title: Mixed race and cultural memory : Carl Hancock Rux' Talk / Michele Elam; title: Remembering Agraba : Canadian political theatre and the construction of cultural memory / Jerry Wasserman; title: Contending with rupture : memory-work in Latina-Canadian playwriting / Guillermo Verdecchia; title: La tierra, nuestra madre, land, burial, memory and chicanidad in the dramaturgies of Alfaro, Moraga, and Sanchez-Scott / Phil Howard; title: Impossible patriots : the exiled queer in Cherríe Moraga's The hungry woman, a Mexican Medea / Micaela Díaz-Sánchez; title: Indigena as scribe : the (w)rite to remember / Cherríe L. Moraga; title: Cositas quebradas : performance codex / Celia Herrera Rodríguez; title: "Prior was here" : renegotiating a role for the ghost of cultural memory in four Cree plays / Mary Blackstone; title: "Being in a memory but present in time" : re-inscription of multiple memories in Marie Clements' The unnatural and accidental women / Sheila Rabillard; title: The bones perform : ola na iwi and the viability of memory / Sammie Choy; title: The creation of shifting local identities : historically-based theatre in a Canadian small city / Ginny Ratsoy; title: Memories, hauntings and exorcisms in Brad Fraser's Snake in fridge / Roberta Mock; title: Spreading American feminism : The vagina monologues and cultural identity / Susan Kattwinkel; title: "Suddenly, Canada is hot" : memories of Canadian identity construction as cultural export / Birgit Schreyer Duarte; title: Re-configuring cultural memory in Chay Yew's Wonderland and M.J. Kang's Blessings / Caroline De Wagter; title: Performing the Asian American signature in law and theatre / Karen Shimakawa.