David Román

Performance in America

Contemporary U.S. Culture and the Performing Arts

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Argues for the centrality of theater and performance in the American national imaginary.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 161mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9780822336754
• ISBN-10: 0822336758
• Artikelnr.: 21778746

Autorenporträt

David Román

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: Here and Now 1
1. Not About AIDS 49
2. Visa Denied: Chay Yew's Theatre of Immigration and the Performance of
Asian American History 78
3. Latino Genealogies: Broadway and Beyond — the Case of John Leguizamo 109
4. Archival Drags; or, the Afterlife of Performance 137
5. Cabaret as Cultural History: Popular Song and Public Performance in
America 179
6. Tragedy and the Performing Arts in the Wake of September 11, 2001 226
Afterword: The Time of Your Life 281
Notes 311
Bibliography 333
Index 345