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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. The book works to assess whether representing violence may cause its cessation, or whether it generates further destruction. Featured playwrights include Susan Glaspell, Sophie Treadwell, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Amiri Baraka, Luis Valdes, Cherrie Moraga, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Neil LaBute, John Guare, Rebecca Gilman, and Heather MacDonald.
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
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