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- catalog abstract "Staging Place: The Geography of Modern Drama is the first book-length study of modern drama's relentless concern with the role and meaning of place in social and theatrical experience. Covering the major dramatic movements from naturalism to multiculturalism (with playwrights ranging from Ibsen, Strindberg, and O'Neill to Churchill, Hwang, and Kushner), the book reconceptualizes the content and continuities of theater history, showing them to be informed by a century-long struggle with the meaning and power of place. This struggle, labelled geopathology, unfolds as a dialogue between home and homelessness, belonging and exile. By reading canonical works in conjunction with contemporary ones, Staging Place charts the evolution of a dramatic paradigm.".
- catalog contributor b7671703.
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-299) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: The Politics of Home and the Poetics of Exile -- 1. Plays and Place -- 2. Geopathology: The Painful Politics of Location -- 3. America and the Limits of Homecoming -- 4. The Places of Language -- 5. Travel Agencies -- 6. "If Not Here, Where?": The Challenge of Multiculturalism -- Epilogue: America at the End.".
- catalog description "Staging Place: The Geography of Modern Drama is the first book-length study of modern drama's relentless concern with the role and meaning of place in social and theatrical experience. Covering the major dramatic movements from naturalism to multiculturalism (with playwrights ranging from Ibsen, Strindberg, and O'Neill to Churchill, Hwang, and Kushner), the book reconceptualizes the content and continuities of theater history, showing them to be informed by a century-long struggle with the meaning and power of place. This struggle, labelled geopathology, unfolds as a dialogue between home and homelessness, belonging and exile. By reading canonical works in conjunction with contemporary ones, Staging Place charts the evolution of a dramatic paradigm.".
- catalog extent "xv, 310 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Staging place.".
- catalog identifier "0472095897 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Staging place.".
- catalog isPartOf "Theater--theory/text/performance".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,".
- catalog relation "Staging place.".
- catalog subject "809.2/922 20".
- catalog subject "Drama 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Drama 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PN1672.9 .C53 1995".
- catalog subject "Place (Philosophy) in literature.".
- catalog subject "Setting (Literature)".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: The Politics of Home and the Poetics of Exile -- 1. Plays and Place -- 2. Geopathology: The Painful Politics of Location -- 3. America and the Limits of Homecoming -- 4. The Places of Language -- 5. Travel Agencies -- 6. "If Not Here, Where?": The Challenge of Multiculturalism -- Epilogue: America at the End.".
- catalog title "Staging place : the geography of modern drama / Una Chaudhuri.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".