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Signatures of the past : cultural memory in contemporary Anglophone North American drama
- Title
- Signatures of the past : cultural memory in contemporary Anglophone North American drama / Marc Maufort & Caroline De Wagter (eds.).
- Publication
- Bruxelles ; New York : P.I.E. Peter Lang, ©2008.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 312 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Series Statement
- Dramaturgies, 1376-3199 ; no. 24
- Uniform Title
- Dramaturgies ; no. 24.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- 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
- American drama
- American drama > Minority authors
- Canadian drama
- Canadian drama > Minority authors
- Theater and society
- Drama
- Englisch
- Kollektives Gedächtnis Motiv
- Kulturelle Identität Motiv
- Canada
- United States
- Kanada
- USA
- USA
- Englisch
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Signatures of cultural memory / Marc Maufort -- "Hopeful monsters and doomed freaks" : evolutionary overtones in Canadian and American drama / Craig Walker -- Remembering Africa, performing cultural memory : Lorraine Hansberry, Suzan-Lori Parks and Djanet Sears / Harry J. Elam -- Performing intercultural memory in the diasporic present : the case of Toronto / Ric Knowles -- "The ground on which I stand" : rewriting history, African Canadian style / Jacqueline Petropoulos -- Mixed race and cultural memory : Carl Hancock Rux' Talk / Michele Elam -- Remembering Agraba : Canadian political theatre and the construction of cultural memory / Jerry Wasserman -- Contending with rupture : memory-work in Latina-Canadian playwriting / Guillermo Verdecchia -- La tierra, nuestra madre : land, burial, memory and chicanidad in the dramaturgies of Alfaro, Moraga, and Sanchez-Scott / Phil Howard -- Impossible patriots : the exiled queer citizen in Cherríe Moraga's The hungry woman, a Mexican Medea / Micaela Díaz-Sánchez -- Indigena as scribe : the (w)rite to remember / Cherríe L. Moraga -- Cositas quebradas : performance codex / Celia Herrera Rodríguez -- "Prior was here" : renegotiating a role for the ghost of cultural memory in four Cree plays / Mary Blackstone -- "Being in a memory but present in time" : re-inscription of multiple memories in Marie Clements' The unnatural and accidental women / Sheila Rabillard -- The bones perform : ola na iwi and the viability of memory / Sammie Choy -- The creation of shifting local identities : historically-based theatre in a Canadian small city / Ginny Ratsoy -- Memories, hauntings and exorcisms in Brad Fraser's Snake in fridge / Roberta Mock -- Spreading American feminism : The vagina monologues and cultural identity / Susan Kattwinkel -- "Suddenly, Canada is hot" : memories of Canadian identity construction as cultural export in Michael Healey's The drawer boy / Birgit Schreyer Duarte -- Re-configuring cultural memory in Chay Yew's Wonderland and M.J. Kang's Blessings / Caroline De Wagter -- Performing the Asian American signature in law and theatre / Karen Shimakawa.
- ISBN
- 9789052014548
- 905201454X
- LCCN
- 2008035153
- 9789052014548
- OCLC
- ocn244628291
- 244628291
- SCSB-1507021
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library