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Peculiar Passages: Black Women Playwrights, 1875 to 2000Autor: Carol Allen
Taschenbuch, 27.05.2005
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The Passing Figure: Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature (Modern American Literature / New Approaches, Band 6)Juda C. BennettGebundene Ausgabe |
Yardsticks: Retarded Characters and Their Roles in Fiction (American University Studies / Series 4: English Language and Literature, Band 155)Patricia PuccinelliGebundene AusgabeRetarded Characters and Their Roles in Fiction Gebundenes Buch A retarded character is often used in fiction as a conventional device. This study traces its history from the court fools of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries up through the characters in twentieth-century works. Puccinelli identifies the retarded character's role in narrative in terms of the following five categories: the yardstick (the most prevalent of the five), the wise fool, the catalyst, the window pane, and the accessory. Though this discussion is limited to American fiction, the analysis perseveres in other national literatures and in other media, including film and television. |
One Hundred Years of Canadian CinemaGeorge MelnykTaschenbuchLieferzeit 1-3 Wochen (aus den U S A) |
In the National Interest: A Chronicle of the National Film Board of Canada from 1949 to 1989: Chronicle of the National Film Board of Canada from 1949-1989 (Heritage)Gary EvansTaschenbuch |
The Artist as Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg (Heritage)William BeardTaschenbuchRare Book |
Peculiar Passages: Black Women Playwrights, 1875 to 2000Carol AllenGebundene AusgabeBlack Women Playwrights, 1875 to 2000 Gebundenes Buch This book features African American women playwrights from 1875 to 2000, with an emphasis on the late nineteenth century, a period rarely treated in regard to women's drama. Highlighting the lesser-known Pauline Hopkins, Angelina Weld Grimké, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Eulalie Spence, and May Miller, and the well-known Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Childress, Adrienne Kennedy, and Ntozake Shange, Peculiar Passages argues that these playwrights' efforts define a tradition characterized by quick-change mobility, sensitivity to vernacular forms, and dedication to intertextual dialogue. Situating the plays within a broader context, the book also connects them to minstrelsy, the Passion Play, and the Black Arts Movement. |
The Double, the Labyrinth and the Locked Room: Metaphors of Paradox in Crime Fiction and FilmIlana ShilohTaschenbuch |
The Family in Twentieth-Century American Drama (Modern American Literature / New Approaches)Thaddeus WakefieldGebundene AusgabeGebundenes Buch The central subject of American drama is, arguably, the American family. From Royall Tyler's colonial comedy The Contrast (1787) to August Wilson's King Hedley I I (2000), relationships between husbands, wives, and their children have been used consistently by American playwrights to explore and illuminate the American experience. This study of the family in twentieth-century American drama explores how filial relationships are affected by the capitalistic culture of consumption that permeates twentieth-century American society. By analyzing relationships within both traditional and nontraditional families, this book examines how family members in American plays perceive themselves and others as "things" in American twentieth-century capitalistic society. |
Gothic Perspectives on the American Experience: Second PrintingGregory G. PepetoneTaschenbuch |
The German-Americans and World War II: An Ethnic Experience (New German-American Studies / Neue Deutsch-Amerikanische Studien, Band 6)Timothy J. HolianTaschenbuchAn Ethnic Experience Broschiertes Buch The German-Americans and World War I I: An Ethnic Experience is a unique study of America's largest ethnic group during one of its most difficult periods. Focusing on Cincinnati, Ohio as a center of German-American life, the author utilizes original source material and first-hand interviews to present the first detailed account of the German-American experience during the years leading up to and through World War I I. Topics discussed include the arrest and internment of German legal resident aliens and German-Americans, as enemy aliens; media portrayals of the German-American element during the war era; and an overview of German-American efforts to gain formal recognition of their wartime ordeal. |