Text & Presentation, 2014

Graley Herren is a professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati and an executive board member for the Comparative Drama Conference. He has published widely on modern literature, with an emphasis upon the drama of Samuel Beckett and the fiction of Don DeLillo.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Preface

A Conversation with David Henry Hwang (Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.)

Translating Tempests: A Reading of Aimé Césaire’s Une Tempête in Translation (Giuseppe Sofo)

Telemachos, the Odyssey and Hamlet (Bruce Louden)

Cognitive Misappraisal in Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan delete(Todd O. Williams)

Primal, Pure or Something in Between? Aida Walker, Dance and

Sexuality (Elizabeth M. Cizmar)

Mediating ­East-West Binarisms: A Study of ­Al-Hakim’s Hybrid

Plays (Ahmed Mohammed Ghaleb)

Fragments Shored: Some Remarks on T. S. Eliot’s Drama and the Uses of Hugh Grant’s Vacancy (Doug Phillips)

Cabaret and the ­Avant-Garde (Brigitte Bogar and Christopher Innes)

Fifty Years of Ariane Mnouchkine and the Théâtre du Soleil: The Director as Dramaturge, Theater Historian and Public Intellectual (Allen J. Kuharski)

Norodom Sihanouk: The “Unfinished” Story of American Global

Totalitarianism by Hélène Cixous and the Théâtre du Soleil (Les Essif)

Oedipus King / Oedipus Pig: Nanos Valaoritis’s Ludic Politics (Vassiliki Rapti)

Friends Dying Before Our Eyes in Annie Baker’s The Aliens (Thomas Butler)

A Comparative Analysis of Three Plays on Disasters: Omnium Gatherum, Carried Away on the Crest of a Wave, and Radio 311 (Yuko Kurahashi)

Perceptions of Memory and Mechanisms of Power: Beckett,

Williams and Pinter (Doug Phillips)

Review of Literature: Selected Books

Penny Farfan and Lesley Ferris, eds. Contemporary Women

Playwrights (Michael Y. Bennett)

Arturo J. Aldama, Chela Sandoval and Peter J. García, eds. Performing the US Latina and Latino Borderlands (Suzanne M. Bost)

Tony Jason Stafford. Shaw’s Settings: Gardens and Libraries (Rebecca S. Cameron)

Michael Y. Bennett. Narrating the Past through Theatre: Four

Crucial Texts (Alex Feldman)

Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. Black Medea: Adaptations in Modern Plays (Mathias Hanses)

Marianne Novy. Shakespeare and Outsiders (Peter Kanelos)

Ryan Claycomb. Lives in Play: Autobiography and Biography on the Feminist Stage (Amelia Howe Kritzer)

Andrew Sofer. Dark Matter: Invisibility in Drama, Theater and Performance (Jeffrey B. Loomis)

Philip C. Kolin and Harvey Young, eds. Suzan-Lori Parks in Person:

Interviews and Commentaries (Jaye Austin Williams)

Siyuan Liu. Performing Hybridity in ­Colonial-Modern China (Leo Shingchi Yip)

Index