عنوان

Urban drama :

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Urban drama :

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the metropolis in contemporary North American plays

J. Chris Westgate.

New York

Palgrave Macmillan

2011

Introduction: A Rhetoric of Sociospatial Drama * PART I: ELEMENTS OF URBANISM * Against the Law in this City: Public Space in New York City *€City, Bad Place: Architecture & Disorientation in New York City * PART II: ITERATIONS OF URBANISM * Livin' in a Paradise: Suburbanism in Los Angeles *€Does it Explode?: Ghettoization & Rioting in New York City & Los Angeles *€Part of the City: Enclaves & Exiles in Los Angeles. Machine generated contents note: --;Introduction: A Rhetoric of Sociospatial Drama * PART I: ELEMENTS OF URBANISM * "Against the Law in this City": Public Space in New York City * --;"City, Bad Place": Architecture & Disorientation in New York City * PART II: ITERATIONS OF URBANISM * "Livin in a Paradise": Suburbanism in Los Angeles * --;"Does it Explode?": Ghettoization & Rioting in New York City & Los Angeles * --;"Part of the City": Enclaves & Exiles in Los Angeles.

Identifying an apprehension about the nature and constitution of urbanism in North American plays, Westgate examines how cities like New York City and Los Angeles became focal points for identity politics and social justice at the end of the twentieth century, and how urban crises inform the dramaturgy of contemporary playwrights.

American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

City and town life in literature.

Space and time in literature.

J. Chris Westgate.

J Chris Westgate

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