Theater of the Void explores contemporary German theater in the aftermath of the technology of the atomic bomb. Informed by threats of total annihilation-whether through nuclear technology or, more recently, global warming-German-language theater since the late 1970s encounters the void not as empty space or nothingness but as the possibility of ......
Theater of the Void explores contemporary German theater in the aftermath of the technology of the atomic bomb. Informed by threats of total annihilation-whether through nuclear technology or, more recently, global warming-German-language theater since the late 1970s encounters the void not as empty space or nothingness but as the possibility of ......
Impersonation and Nationalist Fictions in the Americas
In Hemispheric Blackface, Danielle Roper examines blackface performance and its relationship to twentieth- and twenty-first-century nationalist fictions of mestizaje, creole nationalism, and other versions of postracialism in the Americas. Challenging both the dominance of the US minstrel tradition and the focus on the nation in blackface studies, ......
Impersonation and Nationalist Fictions in the Americas
In Hemispheric Blackface, Danielle Roper examines blackface performance and its relationship to twentieth- and twenty-first-century nationalist fictions of mestizaje, creole nationalism, and other versions of postracialism in the Americas. Challenging both the dominance of the US minstrel tradition and the focus on the nation in blackface studies, ......
Born Alfred Reginald John Truscott-Jones, Welsh American actor Ray Milland (1907-1986) appeared in more than 135 theatrical releases between 1929 and 1985 and on radio, television, and the stage, while also becoming a film director; Milland's extensive canon across such a period is remarkable, especially considering his lack of formal training, ......
Black Women's Visual Work and the Ethics of Representation
How Black women's visual work functions in an era of new racial and gender meaning In the wake of contemporary art's post-Black turn and the mainstreaming of intersectionality, Undesirability and Her Sisters charts a new genealogy of Black women's art that exposes the unfinished project of racial and gender empowerment in the twenty-first ......
Black Women's Visual Work and the Ethics of Representation
How Black women's visual work functions in an era of new racial and gender meaning In the wake of contemporary art's post-Black turn and the mainstreaming of intersectionality, Undesirability and Her Sisters charts a new genealogy of Black women's art that exposes the unfinished project of racial and gender empowerment in the twenty-first ......
Contemporary Russophone Drama and Performance Theory
New Drama-a collection of actors, directors, and playwrights in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus-is one of the most active and vibrant artistic movements in the Russophone world today yet remains understudied in the West. E. Susanna Weygandt demonstrates that the major innovation of New Drama is a sonic turn, an aesthetic development that moves away ......
Links early modern English drama and empire studies, exploring how staged scenes of maritime peril created a new form of economic uncertainty Imperial Ventures links early modern English drama and empire studies, exploring how staged scenes of maritime peril created a new form of economic uncertainty around the turn of the seventeenth century, ......
