Postmodern/drama
reading the contemporary stage
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Author
Publication
1998 - University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Language
English
Word Count
55,000 words, Guess
Page Count
220 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL349708M
- ISBN-100472108727
- OCLC Control Number38535923
- OCLC Control Numberpostmoderndramar0000watt
- Library of Congress Control Number98008970
and 1 more
- Goodreads4834652
Classifications
- DDC809.2/04
- LCCPN1623 .W35 1998
Description
Postmodern/Drama scrutinizes the critical tendency to label texts or writers as "postmodern" and delineates what it might mean to "read" drama more "postmodernly." That is to say, this book resists interpretive gestures that would label writers like Samuel Beckett as a modernist, existentialist, absurdist, or postmodernist, and instead asks in what ways Beckett's plays open themselves to readings that might be termed postmodern in emphasis. Along the way, the author offers sustained analyses of such dramatists as Harold Pinter, David Rabe, David Mamet, Arthur Kopit, Cherrie Moraga, Luis Valdez, Sam Shepard, Karen Finley, and others. In addition to the dramatists it explores, the book considers novels by Samuel Beckett, Italo Calvino, and Don DeLillo; films by George Huang and Robert Altman; and commentary on postmodernity by Jean Baudrillard and Fredric Jameson. In the end, the postmodernity of contemporary drama is shown as less a question of genre or media than of a certain mode of subjectivity shared and contested by playwrights, producers, and audiences.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Theater--theory/text/performance
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