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Contemporary American Monologue eBook

Performance And Politics

by Eddie Paterson
language: english
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING, December of 2015 ‧
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Talk-show confessions, online rants, stand-up routines, inspirational speeches, banal reflections and calls to arms: we live in an age of solo voices demanding to be heard. In The Contemporary American Monologue Eddie Paterson looks at the pioneering work of US artists Spalding Gray, Laurie Anderson, Anna Deavere Smith and Karen Finley, and the development of solo performance in the US as a method of cultural and political critique. Ironic confession, post-punk poetry, investigations of race and violence, and subversive polemic, this book reveals the link between the rise of radical monologue in the late 20th century and history of speechmaking, politics, civil rights, individual freedom and the American Dream in the United States. It shows how US artists are speaking back to the cultural, political and economic forces that shape the world.

Eddie Paterson traces the importance of the monologue in Shakespeare, Brecht, Beckett, Chekov, Pinter, O''Neill and Williams, before offering a comprehensive analysis of several of the most influential and innovative American practitioners of monologue performance.

The Contemporary American Monologue
constitutes the first book-length account of US monologists that links the tradition of oratory and speechmaking in the colony to the appearance of solo performance as a distinctly American phenomenon.

Contemporary American Monologue

Performance And Politics

by Eddie Paterson

Property Description
ISBN: 9781472585042
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
Release Date: December of 2015
Language: English
Pages: 232
Format: eBook
File Format and Compatibility: PDF para ADE
Collection: Methuen Drama Engage
Categories: eBooks in English > Tourist Guides and Maps > North America
EAN: 9781472585042