Agitated States Performance in the American Theater of Cruelty

Name: Agitated States Performance in the American Theater of Cruelty
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ISBN: 9780472068111

ISBN-10: 0472068113

ISBN-13: 9780472068111

Edition: 2002

Authors: Anthony James Kubiak

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Description:

This book rethinks American history as theatre, and theatre as the ethos and substance of American life, ironically repudiated at every turn by the culture it produces.

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 7/31/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.30" wide x 8.94" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Prologue


Introduction/Second Manifesto: The American Theater of Cruelty



Warning Signs



Puritanism and the Early American Theaters of Cruelty



The Resistance to Theater in the Conquest of America



Confession



Ripping Good Time: History, Blindsight, and Amnesic Thought



Excursis: The Thought of an American Theater



Convulsions



What Child Is This? O'Neill, Albee, Shepard, and the Body of the Repressed



Splitting the Difference: Performance and Its Double in American Culture



Abdication



Nothing Doing



Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index