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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: contemporary American monologue
    sub title: performance and politics
  name:
    name part: Paterson, Eddie
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Talk-show confessions, online rants, stand-up routines, inspirational speeches, banal reflections and calls to arms. We live in an age of solo voices demanding to be heard. In The Contemporary American Monologue, Eddie Paterson looks at the pioneering work of US artists Spalding Gray, Laurie Anderson, Anna Deavere Smith and Karen Finley, and the development of solo performance in the United States as a method of cultural and political critique. Ironic confession, post-punk poetry, investigations of race and violence, and subversive polemic, this book reveals the link between the rise of radical monologue in the late 20th century and history of speechmaking, politics, civil rights, individual freedom and the American Dream in the United States. It shows how US artists are speaking back to the cultural, political and economic forces that shape the world. Eddie Patterson traces the importance of the monologue in Shakespeare, Brecht, Beckett, Chekov, Pinter, O'Neill and Williams, before offering a comprehensive analysis of several of the most influential and innovative American practitioners of monologue performance. The volume also contains an interview with artist Karen Finley, on the trajectory of her recent works. The Contemporary American Monologue constitutes the first book-length account of US monologists that links the tradition of oratory and speechmaking in the colony to the appearance of solo performance as a distinctly American phenomenon.
  table of contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Monologue in Drama Chapter 2: Monologue in the US Chapter 3: Confessional monologue: Spalding Gray Chapter 4: Punk monologue: Laurie Anderson Chapter 5: Rights monologue: Anna Deavere Smith Chapter 6: Radical monologue: Karen Finley Chapter 7: Future monologues Addendum: 'I didn't fall asleep' an interview with Karen Finley Endnotes Index.
  note: Eddie Paterson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Oratory
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: American drama
    temporal: 21st century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Monologues
  subject:
    topic: PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General
  subject:
    topic: PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism
  classification: PN4055.U5 P38 2015
  classification: 808.5/109730905
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Methuen drama engage
  identifier: 9781472585028
  identifier: 147258502X
  identifier: 9781472585011
  identifier: 1472585011
  identifier: 2015006704
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150227
    record change date: 20170928110722.0
    record identifier: in00003611040