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American dramas consciously rewrite the past as a means of determined criticism and intentional resistance. While modern criticism often sees the act of revision as derivative, Malburne-Wade uses Victor Turner's concept of the social drama and the concept of the liminal to argue for a more complicated view of revision.
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Keywords
- American drama
- American literature
- Arthur Miller
- The Crucible
- William Carlos Williams
- Tituba's Children
- the Salem Witch Trials
- The House Un-American Activities Committee
- McCarthyism
- James Baldwin
- Blues for Mister Charlie
- Emmett Till
- Amasa Delano
- Herman Melville
- Benito Cereno
- Richard Wright
- Man
- God Ain't Like That
- Robert Lowell
- Lorraine Hansberry
- America
- Amerikanische Literatur
- drama
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Reviews
"In Revision as Resistance in Twentieth-Century American Drama, Malburne-Wade extends Harold Bloom's notions of 'anxiety' and 'misreading' in relation to intertextuality. But she also steps away from the Bloomian psychology to lay bare the moral dimensions of the 'bleed' and 'discomfort' involved in consciously revisiting and revising earlier texts, historical or literary. In reading six plays together - three each by white American and African American writers - Malburne-Wade deftly situates American drama in the mid-twentieth century as a persistent reminder of the repetitive nature of history, particularly when, as a whole, we fail to learn from our errors or to advance our democracy in responding to modern issues such as slavery and racism, McCarthyism, and colonialism." - Amritjit Singh, Langston Hughes Professor, English, Ohio University, USA
"Malburne-Wade's book unpacks layers of historical and literary renderings of the past to reveal the significance of political statements being made in each author's present as well as our own. By explicating the ways in which writers like Arthur Miller, William Carlos Williams, and Lorraine Hansberry make particular and situated sociopolitical critiques in their art, and, just as importantly, by showing the ways in which these critiques can be deeply a part of the human condition - a past that is not past - without falling into the sort of false universalism that levels difference, Malburne-Wade helps to show a way forward for students of political theatre." - Ashley Lucas, Associate Professor, Theatre and Drama, University of Michigan, USA
About the author
Meredith M. Malburne-Wade is Associate Director of National and International Fellowships at Elon University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Revision as Resistance in Twentieth-Century American Drama
Authors: Meredith M. Malburne-Wade
Series Title: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137441614
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Theatre & Performance Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-46922-9Published: 13 May 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-44161-4Published: 12 January 2016
Series ISSN: 2634-579X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5803
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 208
Topics: Performing Arts, Theatre History, North American Literature, Theatre and Performance Studies, Arts