Interrogating America through Theatre and Performance (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)

This collection of essays dissects American plays, movies and other performance types that examine America and its history and culture. From Amerindian stage performances to AIDS and post-9/11 America, it displays the various and important ways theatre and performance studies have examined and conversed with American culture and history.

WILLIAM W. DEMASTES is Professor of English at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA.   IRIS SMITH FISCHER is Associate Professor of English at the University of Kansas, USA.