Beyond the Golden Door
Subtitle: Jewish-American Drama and Jewish-American Experience (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: May 13, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781403970091
Subjects: American; Judaism - General; Theater - History & Criticism; Religion / Judaism / General; Religion; Religion - Judaism
Description: "Clifford Odets. Arthur Miller. Paddy Chayefsky. Neil Simon. Jules Feiffer. Wendy Wasserstein. Tony Kushner. These leading American playwrights do not just happen to be Jewish: they are Jewish playwrights. They and other Jewish playwrights have written out of their own experience, for general American audiences, about what it feels like to be twentieth-century American Jews. Beyond the Golden Door is the first book devoted to showing how Jewish playwrights have dramatized the great struggle to balance Old World heritage with New World opportunity - a struggle with implications for all American ethnicities."--Jacket.