Modern Anglophone Drama by Women

ISBN-13: 9780820488899 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 494 str.

Recenzje

"This exciting new collection edited by Alan P. Barr will serve as a vital text in any course that aims to expand the canon of modern and contemporary drama written by women in an international or global direction. It makes available for the first time significant plays by women from around the English-speaking world." (Stephen Watt, Chair, English Department, Indiana University; Author, 'Postmodern Drama/Reading the Contemporary Stage'; Editor, 'A Century of Irish Drama: Widening the Stage')
"In this important and groundbreaking companion volume to his anthology of plays by European women ('Modern Women Playwrights of Europe'), Alan P. Barr makes available eleven postcolonial theatrical works written in English by non-European women from such politically and economically diverse countries as Canada, Ghana, Ireland, Nigeria, Australia, South Africa, and Singapore. Despite their widely differing social, economic, and political situations, these women demonstrate common concerns for their histories and identities as well as remarkably similar attitudes and yearnings. Comprising a symphony of Englishes, their plays will surely enlighten and delight readers wherever English and theater are valued." (Patricia W. O'Connor, Charles Phelps Taft Professor Emerita of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati; Author, 'Mujeres sobre mujeres en los albores del Siglo XXI/One-Act Plays by Women about Women in the Early Years of the 21st Century')

Spis treści

Contents: Lady Gregory: The Rising of the Moon (Ireland, 1907) - Ama Ata Aidoo: Anowa (Ghana, 1970) - Sharon Pollock: Blood Relations (Canada, 1980) - Judith Thompson: The Crackwalker (Canada, 1980) - Stella Kon: Emily of Emerald Hill (Singapore, 1984) - Renée: Wednesday to Come (New Zealand, 1985) - Alma De Groen: The Rivers of China (Australia, 1986) - Tess A. Onwueme: The Reign of Wazobia (Nigeria, 1993) - Susan Pam-Grant: Curl Up and Dye (South Africa, 1993) - Christina Reid: Tea in a China Cup (Northern Ireland, 1983) - Marina Carr: Portia Coughlan (Ireland, 1996).

O autorze

The Editor: Alan P. Barr received his doctorate from the University of Rochester in 1964 and has been teaching and writing about modern drama, Victorian literature, and film ever since. He is the author of Victorian Stage Pulpiteer: Bernard Shaw's Crusade (1974), and editor of Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley (1997), Thomas Henry Huxley's Place in Science and Letters: Centenary Essays (1997), and Modern Women Playwrights of Europe (2001), Barr has also published a number of articles in major journals, most recently on Dickens's David Copperfield. He is a professor in the English department and a member of the women's studies faculty at Indiana University Northwest.