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Dana Rufolo’s ARTICLE, Psychodrama Strategies That Protect Tennessee Williams’ Late-Play Characters from a Violent World on page 128 Violence in American Drama Essays on Its Staging, Meanings and Effects Edited by Alfonso Ceballos Munoz, Ram�n Espejo Romero and Bernardo Mu�oz Martinez Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-6393-0 EBook ISBN: 978-0-7864-8897-1 notes, bibliographies, index 296pp. softcover (6 x 9) 2011 Buy Now! Price: $55.00 1 Quantity: Available for immediate shipment About the Book This interdisciplinary collection of 19 essays addresses violence on the American stage. Topics include the revolutionary period and the role of violence in establishing national identity, violence by and against ethnic groups, and females as perpetrators and victims, as well as state and psychological violence and violence within the family. The book works to assess whether representing violence may cause its cessation, or whether it generates further destruction. Featured playwrights include Susan Glaspell, Sophie Treadwell, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Amiri Baraka, Luis Valdes, Cherrie Moraga, Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Neil LaBute, John Guare, Rebecca Gilman, and Heather MacDonald. Table of Contents & Excerpts Related Books Performing Arts/Theater About the Author Alfonso Ceballos Munoz is an assistant professor of English at the University of Cadiz, Spain, where he teaches American literature. Ramon Espejo Romero is an associate professor of English at the University of Sevilla, Spain, where his teaching primarily focuses on colonial and 19th century American literature, as well as modern American drama. Bernardo Munoz Martinez is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Sevilla, Spain, and his research concerns contemporary American fiction and reception studies. Table of Contents & Excerpts Related Books Performing Arts/Theater Violence in American Drama Essays on Its Staging, Meanings and Effects Edited by Alfonso Ceballos Munoz, Ram�n Espejo Romero and Bernardo Mu�oz Martinez Print ISBN: 978-0-7864-6393-0 EBook ISBN: 978-0-7864-8897-1 notes, bibliographies, index 296pp. softcover (6 x 9) 2011 Table of Contents Preface 1 Revolution and After: Heroism and Violence in Early National Plays about the American Revolution AMELIA HOWE KRITZER 15 Violence Averted Only to Return: Visiting the Archive of “Pocahontas Plays” TAMARA UNDERINER 28 The Thrust for Freedom from Systems of Oppression: A Century of Suicide, Prolicide and Viricide in Plays by American Women CHERYL BLACK 44 Sane Enough to Kill: On Women, Madness and the Theatricality of Violence in Susan Glaspell’s The Verge NOELIA HERNANDO-REAL 59 New Critical Approaches to Machinal: Sophie Treadwell’s Response to Structural Violence MIRIAM LÓPEZ RODRÍGUEZ 72 Working Women and Violence in Jazz Era American Drama JERRY DICKEY 85 The Guns Sing in Harmony: Johnny Johnson and the Musical War ANNE BEGGS 99 The Violence at the Top of the Stairs: Domestic Dystopia in Inge’s Heartland DOROTHY CHANSKY 112 Psychodrama Strategies That Protect Tennessee Williams’ Late-Play Characters from a Violent World DANA RUFOLO 128 “Actual Explosions and Actual Brutality”: Baraka, Violence and the Black Arts Stage DIANA ROSENHAGEN 143 Invisibility’s Contusions: Violence in Cherríe Moraga’s Heroes and Saints and The Hungry Woman and Luis Valdez’s Zoot Suit IRMA MAYORGA 157 Threats, Bad Language and Imperatives: Verbal Violence in Politically (In)Correct Institutional Speech in American Drama at the End of the Millennium YIYI LÓPEZ GÁNDARA 172 “Arms in Women’s Hands”: The Subversion of the Victim Role of Women in Heather McDonald’s Dream of a Common Language MARÍA DOLORES NARBONA CARRIÓN 186 Rebecca Gilman’s Exploration of Gender Conditioning as a Factor in Violence Against Women MICHAEL SOLOMONSON 200 Neil LaBute, Vigilante of Violence: An Examination of His Trilogy The Shape of Things, Fat Pig and Reasons to Be Pretty N. J. STANLEY 212 Challenging the American Dream: U.S. Theater and the Continuum of State Violence MARTA FERNÁNDEZ MORALES 224 Terrorist Violence and Its (Dis)Figurations in Three American Post–9/11 Plays MARKUS WESSENDORF 239 The Cancer Body (Politic) of American Violence: John Guare’s A Few Stout Individuals VIRGINIA DAKARI 250 Affecting the Audience: Gina Gionfriddo’s After Ashley BARBARA OZIEBLO 267 About the Contributors 279 Index 283
