Overview

Full Product Details

Author:   Alfonso Ceballos Muñoz ,  Ramón Espejo Romero ,  Bernardo Muñoz Martinez
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.399kg
ISBN:  

9780786463930

ISBN 10:   0786463937
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   12 September 2011
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents Preface      Revolution and After: Heroism and Violence in Early National Plays about the American Revolution AMELIA HOWE KRITZER      Violence Averted Only to Return: Visiting the Archive of “Pocahontas Plays” TAMARA UNDERINER      The Thrust for Freedom from Systems of Oppression: A Century of Suicide, Prolicide and Viricide in Plays by American Women CHERYL BLACK      Sane Enough to Kill: On Women, Madness and the Theatricality of Violence in Susan Glaspell’s The Verge NOELIA HERNANDO-REAL      New Critical Approaches to Machinal: Sophie Treadwell’s Response to Structural Violence MIRIAM LÓPEZ RODRÍGUEZ      Working Women and Violence in Jazz Era American Drama JERRY DICKEY      The Guns Sing in Harmony: Johnny Johnson and the Musical ANNE BEGGS      The Violence at the Top of the Stairs: Domestic Dystopia in Inge’s Heartland DOROTHY CHANSKY      Psychodrama Strategies That Protect Tennessee Williams’ Late-Play Characters from a Violent World DANA RUFOLO      “Actual Explosions and Actual Brutality”: Baraka, Violence and the Black Arts Stage DIANA ROSENHAGEN      Invisibility’s Contusions: Violence in Cherríe Moraga’s Heroes and Saints and The Hungry Woman and Luis Valdez’s Zoot Suit IRMA MAYORGA      Threats, Bad Language and Imperatives: Verbal Violence in Politically (In)Correct Institutional Speech in American Drama at the End of the Millennium YIYI LÓPEZ GÁNDARA      “Arms in Women’s Hands”: The Subversion of the Victim Role of Women in Heather McDonald’s Dream of a Common Language MARÍA DOLORES NARBONA CARRIÓN      Rebecca Gilman’s Exploration of Gender Conditioning as a Factor in Violence Against Women MICHAEL SOLOMONSON      Neil LaBute, Vigilante of Violence: An Examination of His Trilogy The Shape of Things, Fat Pig and Reasons to Be Pretty N. J. STANLEY      Challenging the American Dream: U.S. Theater and the Continuum of State Violence MARTA FERNÁNDEZ MORALES      Terrorist Violence and Its (Dis)Figurations in Three American Post–9/11 Plays MARKUS WESSENDORF      The Cancer Body (Politic) of American Violence: John Guare’s A Few Stout Individuals VIRGINIA DAKARI      Affecting the Audience: Gina Gionfriddo’s After Ashley BARBARA OZIEBLO      About the Contributors      Index     

Reviews

Author Information

Alfonso Ceballos Muñoz is an assistant professor of English at the University of Cádiz, Spain, where he teaches American literature. Ramón Espejo Romero is an associate professor of English at the University of Sevilla, Spain, where his teaching primarily focuses on colonial and 19th century American literature, as well as modern American drama. Bernardo Muñoz Martínez is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Sevilla, Spain, and his research concerns contemporary American fiction and reception studies.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Countries Available

All regions