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Title:

Signatures of the past : cultural memory in contemporary Anglophone North American drama / Marc Maufort & Caroline De Wagter (eds.).

Publisher:

P.I.E. Peter Lang,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

312 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Canadian drama--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Canadian drama--20th century--History and criticism.
American drama--History and criticism.--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.

Other Authors:

Maufort, Marc.
De Wagter, Caroline.

Notes:

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 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 / 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.

Series:

Dramaturgies, 1376-3199 ; no. 24

ISBN:

905201454X
9789052014548

LCCN:

2008035153

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)