Urban Drama

The Metropolis in Contemporary North American Plays

J. Chris Westgate (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

239 Seiten

2015 | 1st ed. 2011
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-29601-9 (ISBN)

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Identifying an apprehension about the nature and constitution of urbanism in North American plays, Westgate 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, and how urban crises inform the dramaturgy of contemporary playwrights.

J. Chris Westgate is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics at California State University, Fullerton, USA.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	04.03.2017
Zusatzinfo	XI, 239 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	America • Drama • Identity • New York • rhetoric
ISBN-10	1-349-29601-5 / 1349296015
ISBN-13	978-1-349-29601-9 / 9781349296019
Zustand	Neuware