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  • Urban drama[electronic resource] :the metropolis in contemporary North American plays /
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 812/.5409
    Title/Author: Urban drama : the metropolis in contemporary North American plays // J. Chris Westgate.
    Author: Westgate, J. Chris.
    Published: New York : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2011.
    Description: 1 online resource.
    Subject: American drama - History and criticism. - 20th century
    Subject: City and town life in literature.
    Subject: Space and time in literature.
    Subject: Theater - History - 20th century. - United States
    Subject: Literature.
    Subject: PERFORMING ARTS - Theater
    Subject: PERFORMING ARTS - Theater
    Subject: DRAMA - American.
    Subject: SOCIAL SCIENCE - Sociology
    ISBN: 9780230119581 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 0230119581 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9780230347489
    ISBN: 0230347487
    ISBN: 128315899X
    ISBN: 9781283158992
    [NT 15000227]: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-233) and index.
    [NT 15000228]: Introduction: A Rhetoric of Sociospatial Drama * PART I: ELEMENTS OF URBANISM * Against the Law in this City: Public Space in New York City *�City, Bad Place: Architecture & Disorientation in New York City * PART II: ITERATIONS OF URBANISM * Livin' in a Paradise: Suburbanism in Los Angeles *�Does it Explode?: Ghettoization & Rioting in New York City & Los Angeles *�Part of the City: Enclaves & Exiles in Los Angeles.
    [NT 15000229]: 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 Kushner's Angels in America, Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight Los Angeles, 1992, and David Henry Hwang's 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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