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American political plays : an anthology / edited by Allan Havis.
- Title
- American political plays : an anthology / edited by Allan Havis.
- Publication
- Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, 2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS627.P65 A44 2001 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Havis, Allan
- Description
- xix, 379 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- These scripts touch on the issues of the 1990s, including the Gulf War, racial and sexual relations, crises unique to big cities, immigration and multiculturalism, art and censorship, revisionist history, academic freedom, and the transformation of the American presidency. The American play by Suzan-Lori Parks features an Abraham Lincoln impersonator trapped in an outrageous, Beckett-like world, while Naomi Wallace's In the heart of America centers on a Palestinian American from Atlanta who is caught up in the Persian Gulf conflict. Kokoro by Velina Hasu Houston chillingly depicts the stark predicament of a Japanese mother caught between two impossible worlds; Marisol by José Rivera reveals the dark fairytale life of a young Latin woman in a wartorn, apocalyptic New York. The Gift by Allan Havis confronts overwhelming moral ambiguity in the farcical realm of university politics, while Nixon's Nixon by Russell Lees offers an adroit treatment of the fascinating, tortured Nixon/Kissinger relationship. The collection closes with Mac Wellman's 7 Blowjobs, a wicked send-up of the compromise politics that determined the fate of the National Endowment for the Arts.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Political plays.
- Drama
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The America play / Suzan-Lori Parks -- Kokoro / Velina Hasu Houston -- In the heart of America / Naomi Wallace -- Marisol / Josl Rivera -- The gift / Allan Havis -- Nixon's Nixon / Russell Lees -- 7 Blowjobs / Mac Wellman.
- ISBN
- 0252026942 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- 0252070003 (paper : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2001001488
- OCLC
- 46456239
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library