American Political Plays after 9/11 (Theater in the Americas) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809329549 ISBN 13: 9780809329540

Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press, 2010

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Book by HAVIS ALLAN

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Allan Havis, his finger squarely on the national pulse, dissects the post World Trade Center bombing U.S. zeitgeist with this high-voltage collection of seminal political plays. Indispensable reading for contemporary culture watchers. Jody McAuliffe, author of "My Lovely Suicides"" "Allan Havis, his finger squarely on the national pulse, dissects the post World Trade Center bombing U.S. zeitgeist with this high-voltage collection of seminal political plays. Indispensable reading for contemporary culture watchers."--Jody McAuliffe, author of My Lovely Suicides "Havis [puts] into perspective the history, accomplishments, and the pitfalls of producing and interpreting the social influences of American political theater. . . . This collection of plays paints an unsettling landscape of characters, emotions, and experiences from the present and past that continue to power the American socio-political pathos."--?The Journal of American Culture "Allan Havis, his finger squarely on the national pulse, dissects the post World Trade Center bombing U.S. zeitgeist with this high-voltage collection of seminal political plays. Indispensable reading for contemporary culture watchers." --Jody McAuliffe, author of My Lovely Suicides Allan Havis, his finger squarely on the national pulse, dissects the post World Trade Center bombing U.S. zeitgeist with this high-voltage collection of seminal political plays. Indispensable reading for contemporary culture watchers. Jody McAuliffe, author of "My Lovely Suicides"" "Allan Havis, his finger squarely on the national pulse, dissects the post World Trade Center bombing U.S. zeitgeist with this high-voltage collection of seminal political plays. Indispensable reading for contemporary culture watchers."--Jody McAuliffe, author of "My Lovely Suicides"

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American Political Plays after 9/11 is a diverse collection of bold, urgent, and provocative plays that respond to the highly charged, post 9/11 political landscape. Sparked by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and subsequently fueled by a series of controversial events-the Iraq war, the passing and enforcement of the U.S.A. Patriot Act, and the revelation of torture and other scandals at the Abu Ghraib prison-American political theater is currently experiencing a surge in activity. The plays in this collection include The Guys by Anne Nelson, At the Vanishing Point by Naomi Iizuka, The Venus de Milo Is Armed by Kia Corthron, Back of the Throat by Yusseff El Guindi, Three Nights in Prague by Allan Havis, and Question 27, Question 28 by Chay Yew. The characters range from a New York City fire captain trying to respectfully memorialize eight of his lost comrades, to the citizens of a hog-killing Louisville neighborhood who poignantly exemplify the underside of the economic crisis, to an Arab American citizen being harshly (and possibly unfairly) interrogated by two officers as a "person of interest." Though not all of the plays deal explicitly with the Al Qaeda attacks, they collectively reveal themes of sorrow and anxiety, moral indignation, alarmist self-preservation, and economic and social insecurity stemming from the United States' fairly sudden shift from cold war superpower to vulnerable target. The lively introduction by Allan Havis includes a brief history of political theater in the United States, an extensive discussion about how theater communities responded to 9/11, and an informative analysis of the six plays in the book. A collection of dramatic material framed by this significant historical event, American Political Plays after 9/11 will be indispensable for theater and cultural studies scholars and students.

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• Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0809329549
• ISBN 13: 9780809329540
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
• Herausgeber: Havis Allan