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. |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-3 von 35
... racial superiority so marked that it justified genocide . Hitler , the architect of this policy , was clearly a monster and a madman . The comparison with our own racial policies should have embarrassed us , but it was an embarrassment ...
... racial lines were not governmentally enforceable - a principle which the Warren Court used in the sixties to disallow " sit - in " convictions.4 Even the Warren Court's most famous decision , Brown vs. Topeka ( 1954 ) , had a number of ...
... racial stocks - the once hated Hispanic European , the American Indian who was nearly exterminated , and the supposedly inferior Negro who was brutally exploited . It is this racial mixture , deriving from previously despised peoples ...
Inhalt
The Great DepressionSocial Themes in the Theatrical | 1 |
Labor and the Left | 9 |
OneThird of a Nation | 17 |
Urheberrecht | |
14 weitere Abschnitte werden nicht angezeigt.