The Impact of Vietnam War on American Drama

ISBN-13: 9783639707625 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 260 str.

Abdelfattah Hany

Opis

This book aspires to fill the gap in scholarly studies about Vietnam War Theater through examining nine war plays. Within the corpus of Vietnam War plays, three distinctive constellations have been marked: the political impact, the racial impact, and the psychological impact. These constellations form the bulk of the proceeding three chapters. The political constellation includes Megan Terrys Viet Rock (1967), Arthur Kopits Indians (1969), and Danniel Berrigans Trial of the Catonsville Nine (1970). This constellation tackles the early works that are written in direct and in an aggressive protest against the war. The racial constellation includes David Rabes Streamers (1976), Terrence McNallys Botticelli (1968), and John Difuscos Tracers (1980). These plays depict how the Americans regarded the "other" in the Vietnam War. The third constellation probes into the American psyche, which starts to suffer from bitter flashback of memories in the aftermath of the war. Tom Coles Medal of Honor Rag (1975), Emily Manns Still Life (1980), and Stephen Metcalfes Strange Snow (1982) tell the horrific experience of those veterans.

O autorze

Hany A. Abdelfattah is an assistant lecturer at the English Department, Faculty of Alsun, Minia University, Egypt. He is now seconded to teach at the faculty of Education and Arts, University of Tabuk, KSA. His fields of interests include theatre studies, trauma studies, transnational, ethnic identity, and the post 9/11 docudrama.