Mama Dada
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American Avant Garde
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avant-garde drama and sexuality
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Dadaist influence
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Doctor Faustus
drama
Emak Bakia
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Georges Braque
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modernist performance studies
performance historiography
queer modernism
Richard Foreman
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Sad Young Men
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Stein's Doctor Faustus
Stein's Drama
Stein's Influence
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Stein's Writing
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Product details
- ISBN 9780415977234
- Weight: 410g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 29 Sep 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Mama Dada is the first book to examine Gertrude Stein's drama within the history of the theatrical and cinematic avant-gardes. Since the publication of Stein's major writings by the Library of America in 1998, interest in her dramatic writing has escalated, particularly in American avant-garde theaters. This book addresses the growing interest in Stein's theater by offering the first detailed analyses of her major plays, and by considering them within a larger history of avant-garde performance. In addition to comparing Stein's plays and theories to those generated by Dadaists, Surrealists, and Futurists, this study further explores the uniqueness of Stein via these theatrical movements, including discussions of her interest in American life and drama, which argues that a significant and heretofore unrecognized relationship exists among the histories of avant-garde drama, cinema, and homosexuality. By examining and explaining the relationship among these three histories, the dramatic writings of Stein can best be understood, not only as examples of literary modernism, but also as influential dramatic works that have had a lasting effect on the American theatrical avant-
Sarah Bay-Cheng is Assistant Professor of English and Theater at Colgate University. She received her Ph.D. with distinction from the University of Michigan. She is in the process of relocating to SUNY, Buffalo. Her co-edited anthology with Bert Cardullo, The Fallen Staff:An Anthology of Falstaff Plays (2003) is forthcoming this year.
