Death in American Texts and Performances: Corpses, Ghosts, and the Reanimated Dead

ISBN-13: 9781138262225 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 228 str.

Mark Pizzato; Lisa K. Perdigao

Opis

How do twentieth-century artists bring forth the powerful reality of death when it exists in memory and lived experience as something that happens only to others? This volume grapples with this paradox, examining literary texts and performance media that include Amiri Baraka's Dutchman, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, John Edgar Wideman's The Cattle Killing, Toni Morrison's Sula and Song of Solomon, Don DeLillo's White Noise, and HBO's Six Feet Under.

Spis treści

Introduction, Lisa K. Perdigao, Mark Pizzato; Part I Studying the Corpse; Chapter 1 A Representation of Death in an Anti-Vietnam War Play by Luis Valdez, Jorge A. Huerta; Chapter 2 Skins of Desire in Evolution, Mark Pizzato; Chapter 3 DeLillo, Performance, and the Denial of Death, Jon D. Rossini; Chapter 4 Dust to Dust and the Spaces in Between, Alasdair Spark, Elizabeth Stuart; Part II Tracing Ghosts; Chapter 5 Thornton Wilder’s “Eternal Present”, Anne Fletcher; Chapter 6 When Ghosts Dream, Belinda Kong; Chapter 7 A Return to Memory, Possibility, and Life, Ian W. Wilson; Chapter 8 Ghosts of Proof in the Mind’s Eye, Mark Pizzato; Part III Reanimating the Dead; Chapter 9 “For the Union Dead”, William S. Waddell; Chapter 10 Locating the Front Line, Kathryn Nicol; Chapter 11 Televised Death in Don DeLillo’s America, Andrew J. Price; Chapter 12 “Everything now is measured by after”, Lisa K. Perdigao;

O autorze

Lisa Perdigao is Associate Professor of English at the Florida Institute of Technology and Mark Pizzato is Professor of Theatre and Film at UNC-Charlotte, and Mark Pizzato is associate professor of Theatre and Film in the Department of Dance and Theatre at University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA.