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Modern Drama

Volume 58, Number 1, Spring 2015
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This issue contains:

Rethinking Postcolonial Melodrama and Affect
Sheetal Majithia

This article rethinks melodrama's history, uses, and effects, through an analysis of Deepa Mehta's film Earth (1998), an adaptation of Bapsi Sidhwa's novel on the partition of British India, Cracking India (1991). Read more >><http://bit.ly/MD581a>

A Postcolonial Reading of Lesia Ukraïnka's Orhiia
Anastassiya Andrianova

Lesia Ukraïnka's Orhiia [The Orgy] (1913) is traditionally read as an anti-colonial allegory for Ukraine's subjugation to Russia, an approach supported by Ukraine's history and Ukraïnka's biography. Read more >><http://bit.ly/MD581b>

Adaptation, Fidelity, and the "Reek" of Aesthetic Ideology: Susan Sontag's Lady from the Sea
Olivia Noble Gunn

This article considers Susan Sontag's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea (1888). Read more >><http://bit.ly/MD581c>

The Imagistic Theatre of Robert Whitman
Nadja Rottner

This essay discusses the experimental theatre of Robert Whitman who, in 1960, turned toward performance with the sensibility of a process-oriented painter and sculptor. Read more >><http://bit.ly/MD581d>

Vanishing Acts: Sarah Kane's Texts for Performance and Postdramatic Theatre
Matthew Roberts

Written as texts for performance, Sarah Kane's Crave and 4.48 Psychosis challenge the traditional dichotomy between dramatic literature and performance and reveal that the concept of presence often determines the authority that is invested either in performance or in text whenever the two are opposed. Read more >><http://bit.ly/MD581e>

Folk Modernism: Zora Neale Hurston's Gestural Drama
Elin Diamond

Zora Neale Hurston's desire to dramatize the folklore she collected in the late 1920s is well known. Read more >><http://bit.ly/MD581f>


Reviews
GUNHILD BORGGREEN and RUNE GADE, eds., Performing Archives / Archives of Performance, reviewed by David Pellegrini
PENNY FARFAN and LESLIE FERRIS, eds., Contemporary Women Playwrights into the Twenty-First Century, reviewed by Lisa M. Anderson
KAREN JÜRS-MUNBY, JEROME CARROLL, and STEVE GILES, eds. Postdramatic Theatre and the Political: International Perspectives on Contemporary Performance, reviewed by Julia Jarcho
CAOIMHE MCAVINCHEY, ed., Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies, reviewed by Claire Syler
CHRISTINA S. MCMAHON, Recasting Transnationalism through Performance: Theatre Festivals in Cape Verde, Mozambique, and Brazil, reviewed by Sarah J. Townsend
CHRIS MORASH and SHAUN RICHARDS, Mapping Irish Theatre: Theories of Space and Place, reviewed by Lisa Fitzgerald
ANDREA MOST, Theatrical Liberalism: Jews and Popular Entertainment in America, reviewed by Harley Erdman
CRAIG R. PRENTISS, Staging Faith: Religion and African American Theater from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II, reviewed by Paige A. McGinley


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