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Author Murray, Timothy.

Title Drama trauma : specters of race and sexuality in performance, video and art / Tim Murray
Published New York : Routledge, 1997

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Description xiv, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Introduction: Performing Trauma: The Scare of Academic Cool -- 2. Getting Stoned: Psychoanalysis and the Epistemology of Tragedy in Shakespeare -- 3. Othello, An Index and Obscure Prologue to the History of Foul Generic Thoughts -- 4. "Misshapen Chaos of Well-Seeming Forms": Specters of Jointure in Romeo and Juliet -- 5. Patriarchal Panopticism, or the Enigma of a Woman's Smile: Getting Out in Theory -- 6. The Play of Letters: Writing and Possession in Chucky's Hunch --7. Differa(n)ce: Screening the Camera's Eye in Afro-American Drama -- 8. In Exile at Home: Tornado Breath and Unrighteous Fantasy in Robbie Mccauley's Indian Blood -- 9. Camera Obscura Ideologica: From Vermeer to Video in All's Well That Ends Well -- 10. The Contrast Hurts: Censoring the Ladies Liberty in Performance -- 11. Televisual Fears and Warrior Myths: Mary Kelly Meets Dawn Dedeaux
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Psychology.
American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Social problems in literature.
Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Performing arts -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Difference (Psychology) in literature.
Drama -- Psychological aspects.
Race in literature.
Sex in literature.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
LC no. 97006184
ISBN 0415157889 alkaline paper
0415157897 alkaline paper