NEW PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT

[Marc Maufort]

NEW PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT
Signatures of the Past

Cultural Memory in Contemporary Anglophone North American Drama

Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2008. 312 pp.

Dramaturgies. Texts, Cultures and Performances. Vol. 24

ISBN 978-90-5201-454-8 pb.

? 34.90 / sFr. 55.- / ?* 37.30 / ?** 38.40 / £ 26.20 / US-$ 54.95



In the last decades of the twentieth century, North American drama has powerfully enacted the problematic notions of cultural memory and identity, as the essays assembled in this critical anthology demonstrate.

 Echoing Derrida's nonessentialist interpretation of the term «signature», this collection provides an innovative focus on North American theatre and drama as a site of latent cultural memories. In this volume, 

the concept of cultural memory offers a privileged vantage point from which to redefine issues of diasporic identities, exilic predicaments, and multi-ethnic subject positions at the dawn of a new century. 

Playwrights examined here include noted Canadian and US artists such as Marie Clements, Eva Ensler, Lorraine Hansberry, Tomson Highway, Cherríe Moraga, Djanet Sears, Guillermo Verdecchia, August Wilson,

and Chay Yew, to cite but a few. In the process of remembering, North American dramatists develop new aesthetic modes in which the signatures of the past merge with the present and foreshadow an imagined future.



With contributions by: Marc Maufort - Craig Walker - Harry J. Elam, Jr. - Ric Knowles - Jacqueline Petropoulos -Michele Elam - Jerry Wasserman - Guillermo Verdecchia - Phil Howard - 

Micaela Díaz-Sánchez - Cherríe L. Moraga -Celia Herrera Rodríguez - Mary Blackstone - Sheila Rabillard - Sammie Choy - Ginny Ratsoy - Roberta Mock - Susan

Kattwinkel - Birgit Schreyer Duarte - Caroline De Wagter - Karen Shimakawa.





Marc Maufort
Professor of English
Department of Languages and Literatures CP 175
University of Brussels
50, av. F.D. Roosevelt
1050 BRUSSELS
BELGIUM
Tel.: ++32- (0)2-426-04-37
E-mail: mmaufort at ulb.ac.be
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