Jochen Achilles, Ina Bergmann and Birgit Däwes, eds.
Global Challenges and Regional Responses in Contemporary Drama in English
Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2002.
ISBN 3-88476-590-6, 280 pp., EURO 24,50
The volume contains the 14 papers given on the occasion of the eleventh annual conference of CDE, held in Rothenfels by the University of Würzburg.
- Matthew Roudané: Global Challenges, Regional Responses: The Theatre of Sam Shepard
- Hans-Ulrich Mohr: The Significance of ‚Horseplay‘: Global and Regional Dimensions in Sam Shepard’s True West and Far North
- Katharina Ehrhard: Enacting the Farm Crisis of the 1970s: Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class as a Socially Symbolic Act
- Wilfried Raussert: Gender and Performance of Local and Global Conflicts in Postmodern and Contemporary American Drama: LeRoi Jones, José Rivera, David H. Hwang
- Carmen Birkle: Revising America, Revisioning the Past: American Drama in a Global(izing) World
- Kerstin Schmidt: „A Blueprint of an Event“: History, Spectacle, and the Creation of an African American Perspective
- Klaus Benesch: Myth, Media, and the Obsolescene of Postmodern Drama: Don DeLillo’s Tragicomedy Valparaiso
- Marvin Carlson: The Mother Tongue and the Other Tongue: The American Challenge in Recent Drama
- Cordula Quint: Terror of the Contemporary Sublime: Regional Responses to the Challenges of Internationalism and Globalization in the Drama of Caryl Churchill and David Edgar
- Kara McKechnie: Homely Northern Women in Sensible Shoes: Alan Bennett and the Pleasures of Provincialism
- Jürgen Wehrmann: Revising the Nation: Globalization and Fragmentation of Irish History in Sebastian Barry’s Plays
- Birgit Däwes: Local or Global? Negotiations of Identity in Drew Hayden Taylor’s Plays
- Chijioke Uwah: The Theme of Political Betrayal in the Plays of Zakes Mda
- Annette Pankratz / Alyce von Rothkirch / Kathleen Starck / Merle Tönnies: Making Play-Texts Live: Teaching Drama as Experience