New PDF release: Mama Dada: Gertrude Stein's Avant-Garde Theatre (Studies in

By Sarah Bay-Cheng

ISBN-10: 0415968933

ISBN-13: 9780415968935

ISBN-10: 0415977231

ISBN-13: 9780415977234

Mama Dada is the 1st e-book to ascertain Gertrude Stein's drama in the background of the theatrical and cinematic avant-gardes. because the ebook of Stein's significant writings via the Library of the USA in 1998, curiosity in her dramatic writing has escalated, really in American avant-garde theaters. This publication addresses the growing to be curiosity in Stein's theater through delivering the 1st special analyses of her significant performs, and by means of contemplating them inside a bigger heritage of avant-garde functionality. as well as evaluating Stein's performs and theories to these generated by means of Dadaists, Surrealists, and Futurists, this learn additional explores the individuality of Stein through those theatrical events, together with discussions of her curiosity in American existence and drama, which argues major and heretofore unrecognized courting exists one of the histories of avant-garde drama, cinema, and homosexuality. by way of studying and explaining the connection between those 3 histories, the dramatic writings of Stein can top be understood, not just as examples of literary modernism, but additionally as influential dramatic works that experience had an enduring impact at the American theatrical avant-

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