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 Lopez Rodriguez -- Working women and violence in Jazz Era American drama / Jerry Dickey -- The guns sing in harmony: Johnny Johnson and the musical war / 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 Cherrie 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 Lopez Gondara -- "Arms in women's hands": the subversion of the victim role of women in Heather McDonald's Dream of a common language / Maria Dolores Narbona Carrion -- 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 Fernandez 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.
Summary:
"This interdisciplinary collection of 19 essays addresses violence on the American stage. Topics include the revolutionary period and the role of violence in establishing national identity, violence by and against ethnic groups, and females as perpetrators and victims, as well as state and psychological violence and violence within the family"--Provided by publisher.
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