Staging Difference: Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre and Drama

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Acknowledgments v
• Table of Contents vii
• Staging Difference: - A Challenge to the American Melting Pot 1
• Works Cited 5
• Cultural Pluralism and Performance 7
• Simplifying the Native American: - Wild West Shows Exhibit the "Indian" 9
• Works Cited 16
• The Semiotics of Difference: - Representations of Ethnicity and Nativism in Early Twentieth Century American Theatre 19
• Works Cited 28
• Who Do You See When You Look at Me? - Black Core Values and African American Identity in Performance 31
• Works Cited 42
• Intercultural Directing: - Revitalizing Force or Spritual Rape? 45
• Works Cited 53
• The "Oriental" Musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein and the U.S. War in Southeast Asia 57
• Works Cited 72
• Marginal Experience/Mainstream Vision in the Theatrical Career of Zelda [Paldi] Sears 75
• Works Cited 83
• Confronting Shakespeare's "Political Incorrectness" in Production: - Contemporary American Audiences and the New "Problem Plays" 85
• Works Cited 94
• The Canon of American Drama and Cultural Difference 97
• Eugene O'Neill's First Transcultural Epic: - "Universal History" in The Fountain 99
• Works Cited 109
• The Pathology of Resistance to Cultural Assimilation in Eugene O'Neill's Late Plays 111
• Works Cited 119
• Both His Sons: - Arthur Miller's The Price and Jewish Assimilation 121
• Works Cited 138
• Fluidity and Differentiation in Three Plays by Tennessee Williams: - The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 141
• Works Cited 155
• Sam Shepard's Inter/National Stage 157
• Works Cited 170
• The Devil's Advocate: - David Mamet's Oleanna and Political Correctness 173
• Works Cited 186
• The Emergence of a New Multicultural Drama 189
• Asian American Visibility: - Touring Fierce Racial Geographies 191
• Works Cited 200
• New Theatrical Statements: - Asian-Western Mergers in the Early Plays of David Henry Hwang 201
• Works Cited 212
• Looking for a Third Space: - El Pachuco and Chicano Nationalism in Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit 215
• Works Cited 224
• The Internal Third World Voice and Postcolonial Literature: - Rent Marques's The Oxcart 227
• Works Cited 243
• The Struggle to Affirm: - The Image of Jewish-Americans on Stage 245
• Works Cited 257
• "Alive Still, In You": - Memory and Silence in A Shayna Maidel 259
• Works Cited 264
• Breaking Barriers: August Wilson 267
• Works Cited 283
• Of Angels and Transcendence: - An Analysis of Fences by August Wilson and Roosters by Milcha Sanchez-Scott 287
• Works Cited 299
• Adrienne Kennedy's Heterotopias and the (Im) possibilities of the (Black) Female Self 301
• Works Cited 319
• Re-Reading Alice Childress 323
• Works Cited 335
• Sophie Treadwell and the Frontier Myth: - Western Motifs in Machinal and Hope for a Harvest 339
• Works Cited 349
• The Search for Self: - Attachment, Loss, and Recovery in The Heidi Chronicles 351
• Works Cited 362
• Appendices 363
• Across the Boundaries of Cultural Identity: - An Interview with David Henry Hwang 365
• Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre and Drama: A Selected Bibliography 375
• Index 389
• Notes on Contributors 393

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