The Contemporary American Monologue: Performance and Politics

by Eddie Paterson

Book Overview

Talk-show confessions, online rants, stand-up routines, inspirational speeches, banal reflections and calls to arms: we live in an age of solo voices demanding to be heard. In The Contemporary American Monologue Eddie Paterson looks at the pioneering work of US artists Spalding Gray, Laurie Anderson, Anna Deavere Smith and Karen Finley, and the development of solo performance in the US as a method of cultural and political critique. Ironic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147258502X
• ISBN13: 9781472585028
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"