Understanding Lynn Nottage /

"The first comprehensive study of the two-time Pulitzer-winning playwright. Lynn Nottage is one of the leading innovators in American theater today. In settings ranging from seventeenth-century France (Las Meninas) to twenty-first century conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ruine...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hayes, Jennifer L. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2024]
Series:	Understanding contemporary American literature
Subjects:	Nottage, Lynn > Criticism and interpretation. American drama > 21st century > History and criticism. American drama > African American authors > History and criticism. Théâtre américain > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique. Théâtre américain > Auteurs noirs américains > Histoire et critique. PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Playwriting. LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century.

Table of Contents:

Introduction to Lynn Nottage
Migration in Crumbs from the table of joy
Humanizing terror on the stage in Por'knockers and Mud, river, stone
Reclaiming a voice from the past in Las Meninas
Marriage and respectability in Intimate apparel and fabulation
Sexual trauma and survival in Ruined
Humanizing performers in By the way, meet Vera Stark
Anticipating the political divide in Sweat
The question of values in Mlima's tale
Conclusion : the future is Nottage and elusive justice in Clyde's.