Theatre, Society and the Nation: Staging American Identities

Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 4
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Introduction......Page 11
1 From British colony to independent nation: refashioning identity......Page 26
Early dramatic propaganda: loyalty to King and country......Page 30
Transitional plays......Page 34
College dialogues......Page 39
Loyalist propaganda plays......Page 44
Dramatic propaganda for an independent national identity......Page 48
Summary......Page 61
Bunker-Hill......Page 63
André......Page 75
Female Patriotism......Page 79
The Glory of Columbia......Page 86
Summary......Page 88
3 Independence for whom? American Indians and the Ghost Dance......Page 90
Summary......Page 106
4 The role of workers in the nation The Paterson Strike Pageant......Page 108
The preparation of the Paterson Strike Pageant......Page 112
The staging of the pageant......Page 115
The rhetoric of the pageant......Page 118
Fiction or reality......Page 122
Evaluating the success of the pageant......Page 127
Legacy of the Paterson Strike Pageant......Page 133
Summary......Page 135
5 Staging social rebellion in the 1960s......Page 137
Black Nationalist theatre......Page 142
El Teatro Campesino......Page 148
Anti-war theatre......Page 155
6 Reconfiguring patriarchy: suffragette and feminist plays......Page 161
Elizabeth Robins, Votes for Women......Page 166
Summary......Page 182
7 Imaging and deconstructing the multicultural nation in the 1990s......Page 183
Anna Deavere Smith and the warring tribes......Page 186
Tony Kusher and a utopian vision......Page 191
Houston and Aoki undermining normative cultural taxonomies......Page 197
Coatlicue and Gómez-Peña – transnational identities......Page 204
Summary......Page 211
Introduction......Page 213
1 From British colony to independent nation: refashioning identity......Page 216
2 Federalist and Democratic Republican theatre: partisan drama in nationalist trappings......Page 220
3 Independence for whom? American Indians and the Ghost Dance......Page 226
4 The role of workers in the nation: the Paterson Strike Pageant......Page 230
5 Staging social rebellion in the 1960s......Page 248
6 Reconfiguring patriarchy: suffragette and feminist plays......Page 252
7 Imaging and deconstructing the multicultural nation in the 1990s......Page 255
Plays/dialogues/performances/videos......Page 260
Articles......Page 267
Books......Page 270
Index......Page 277