The Contemporary American Monologue - Paterson, Eddie
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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 confession, post-punk poetry, investigations of race and violence, and subversive polemic, this book reveals the link between the rise of radical monologue…mehr

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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 confession, post-punk poetry, investigations of race and violence, and subversive polemic, this book reveals the link between the rise of radical monologue in the late 20th century and history of speechmaking, politics, civil rights, individual freedom and the American Dream in the United States. It shows how US artists are speaking back to the cultural, political and economic forces that shape the world.Eddie Paterson traces the importance of the monologue in Shakespeare, Brecht, Beckett, Chekov, Pinter, O'Neill and Williams, before offering acomprehensive analysis of several of the most influential and innovative American practitioners of monologue performance. The Contemporary American Monologue constitutes the first book-length account of US monologists that links the tradition of oratory and speechmaking in the colony to the appearance of solo performance as a distinctly American phenomenon.
Autorenporträt
Eddie Paterson is a lecturer in the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, Australia.
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Eddie Paterson presents a unique take on the form. He deftly argues that the contemporary American monologue is inherently political, in form and content . As part of the Methuen Drama Engage series, The Contemporary American Monologue makes an important contribution to the discourse on solo theatre in the United States. Series editors Enoch Brater and Mark Taylor-Batty have shaped a book series that offers a wide variety of critical analyses of modern and postmodern theatre that has been largely ignored or warrants more attention. This volume will prove indispensable to solo performers, educators, and anyone with an interest in avant-garde or solo American theatre. With the contribution of Eddie Paterson's rigorous study, the conversation on solo performance is now more extensive, while simultaneously inviting continued critical inquiry. Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism