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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>NEW PUBLICATION
ANNOUNCEMENT</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<P align=left>Signatures of the Past</P></B></FONT></FONT>
<P align=left><STRONG>Cultural Memory in Contemporary Anglophone North American
Drama</STRONG></P><FONT size=2><FONT size=2>
<P align=left>Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford,
Wien, 2008. 312 pp.</P>
<P align=left>Dramaturgies. Texts, Cultures and Performances. Vol. 24</P>
<P align=left>ISBN 978-90-5201-454-8 pb.</P></FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT
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<P align=left>€ </FONT></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT size=2>34.90 / sFr. 55.– /
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<P align=left><FONT size=2>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.</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT size=2> 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, </FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT size=2>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.
</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT size=2>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,</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT size=2>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.</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT size=2></FONT> </P>
<P align=left><FONT size=2><STRONG>With contributions by</STRONG>: Marc Maufort
– Craig Walker – Harry J. Elam, Jr. – Ric Knowles – Jacqueline Petropoulos
–Michele Elam – Jerry Wasserman – Guillermo Verdecchia – Phil Howard –
</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT size=2>Micaela Díaz-Sánchez – Cherríe L. Moraga –Celia
Herrera Rodríguez – Mary Blackstone – Sheila Rabillard – Sammie Choy – Ginny
Ratsoy – Roberta Mock – Susan</FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT size=2>Kattwinkel – Birgit Schreyer Duarte – Caroline De
Wagter – Karen Shimakawa.</FONT></P>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Marc Maufort<BR>Professor of English<BR>Department
of Languages and Literatures CP 175<BR>University of Brussels<BR>50, av. F.D.
Roosevelt<BR>1050 BRUSSELS<BR>BELGIUM<BR>Tel.: ++32- (0)2-426-04-37<BR>E-mail:
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href="mailto:mmaufort@ulb.ac.be">mmaufort@ulb.ac.be</A></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>