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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<https://muse.jhu.edu/results?section1=author&search1=Sheetal%20Majithia>
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). Continue reading >><http://bit.ly/MD_MUSE581a>
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. Continue reading >><http://bit.ly/MD_MUSE581b>
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). Continue reading >><http://bit.ly/MD_MUSE581c>
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. Continue reading >><http://bit.ly/MD_MUSE581d>
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. Continue reading >><http://bit.ly/MD_MUSE581e>
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. Continue reading >><http://bit.ly/MD_MUSE581f>
Reviews
Performing Archives / Archives of Performance ed. by Gunhild Borggreen and Rune Gade (review)
David Pellegrini
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Contemporary Women Playwrights into the Twenty-First Century ed. by Penny Farfan and Leslie Ferris (review)
Lisa M. Anderson
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Postdramatic Theatre and the Political: International Perspectives on Contemporary Performance ed. by Karen Jürs-Munby, Jerome Carroll, and Steve Giles (review)
Julia Jarcho
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Performance and Community: Commentary and Case Studies ed. by Caoimhe McAvinchey (review)
Claire Syler
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Recasting Transnationalism through Performance: Theatre Festivals in Cape Verde, Mozambique, and Brazil by Christina S. McMahon (review)
Sarah J. Townsend
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Mapping Irish Theatre: Theories of Space and Place by Chris Morash and Shaun Richards (review)
Lisa Fitzgerald
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Theatrical Liberalism: Jews and Popular Entertainment in America by Andrea Most (review)
Harley Erdman
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Staging Faith: Religion and African American Theater from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II by Craig R. Prentiss (review)
Paige A. McGinley
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