Urban drama : the metropolis in contemporary North American plays /

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Author / Creator:Westgate, J. Chris.
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Description:x, 239 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Subject:American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
City and town life in literature.
Space and time in literature.
Theater -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Playwriting.
PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism.
DRAMA / American.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
American drama.
City and town life in literature.
Space and time in literature.
Theater.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8441755
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ISBN:9780230114531 (hardback)
0230114539 (hardback)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"Identifying an apprehension about the nature and constitution of urbanism in North American plays, Urban Drama examines how cities like New York City and Los Angeles became focal points for identity politics and social justice at the end of the twentieth century. In plays as different as Tony Kushners Angels in America, Anna Deavere Smiths Twilight Los Angeles, 1992, and David Henry Hwangs FOB, these concerns became spatialized against the urban environment, suggesting a shift of consciousness toward what critical geography has argued: The social is always spatial. Urban Drama interrogates how this shift informs playwriting in the 1980s and 1990s and inspires new modes of dramatic representation"--

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