From Class to Caste in American Drama: Political and Social Themes Since the 1930sBloomsbury Academic, 21.03.1991 - 301 Seiten The American political theatre from the Depression to the present is the subject of this unique new study. Richard Scharine examines issues that shaped the development of the United States during this period, as they were portrayed in selected American plays first produced between 1933 and 1985. Drawing upon fifty years of social, political, and theatrical history, he provides an understanding of the events, ideas, and emotional matrices out of which the plays were born, as well as offering an analysis of human documents that are a reflection of the political events of a time. Along the way, Scharine illustrates how the dramatic representation of American inequalities has evolved in recent decades from the concerns of class to the way class is predetermined by caste. |
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... David will return from the war . The names immediately both inform and distance the audience . The Nelson family ( Ozzie , Harriet , David , and Ricky ) was the archetype of the post - World War II American middle class : white ...
... David recalls seeing his mother sickened in church by the Oriental features of a Eurasian baby . When he wished to bring home Zung , the Vietnamese girl with whom he was in love , Harriet made it clear that she regarded the mixing of ...
... David has brought - through his memories and his family's growing awareness of Zung - recognition of the war into his home . Like the family , the audience is gradually enlightened to the presence of an internal rot , an odor which ...
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The Great DepressionSocial Themes in the Theatrical | 1 |
Labor and the Left | 9 |
OneThird of a Nation | 17 |
Urheberrecht | |
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