Urban Drama The Metropolis In Contemporary North American Plays

Listed In The Chronicle Of Higher Educations Weekly Book List, July 11, 2011 Identifying An Apprehension About The Nature And Constitution Of Urbanism In North American Plays, Urban Drama Examines How Cities Like York City And Los Angeles Became Focal Points For Identity Politics And Social Justice At The End Of The Twentieth Century. In Plays As Different As Tony Kushners Angels In America, Anna Deavere Smiths Twilight Los Angeles, 1992, And David Henry Hwangs Fob, These Concerns Became Spatialized Against The Urban Environment, Suggesting A Shift Of Consciousness Toward What Critical Geography Has Argued: The Social Is Always Spatial. Urban Drama Interrogates How This Shift Informs Playwriting In The 1980s And 1990s And Inspires Modes Of Dramatic Representation.