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The theater of transformation : postmodernism in American drama / Kerstin Schmidt

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Schmidt, Kerstin, 1971-
Published
Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2005.
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1 online resource (230 pages).
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Contents
I Introduction: The Postmodern Condition of Drama; Postmodernism, an Assessment for the Theater; The Repoliticization of Postmodernism; Survey of Selected Secondary Studies; II Theorizing Dramatic Form: Aspects of Transformation in Postmodern Drama; II.1 The Postmodern Sense of Self; II.2 The Dramatic Text, Performance, and Postmodern Authorship; II.3 Theatrical Space and Mediatized Culture; III Jean-Claude van Itallie: Mediatized Culture and the Postmodern Self; III.1 Transformative Selves in "Interview"; III.2 "TV": The Screen Takes Over.
Summary
The Theater of Transformation: Postmodernism in American Drama offers a fresh and innovative reading of the contemporary experimental American theater scene and navigates through the contested and contentious relationship between postmodernism and contemporary drama. This book addresses gender and class as well as racial issues in the context of a theoretical discussion of dramatic texts, textuality, and performance. Transformation is contemporary drama's answer to the questions of postmodernism and a major technique in the development of a postmodern language for the stage. In order to demons.
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ISBN
141759120X (electronic bk.)
9781417591206 (electronic bk.)
9789042018952
904201895X (pbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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