Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; Chapter 1: Experimental Innovations After World War II; Chapter 2: Revisiting the American Dream; Chapter 3: African-American Theater: Voices from the Margins; Chapter 4: Avant-Garde Theater Groups: Revolutions in Performance; Chapter 5: Postmodern Presentations: Questioning Boundaries of Representation; Chapter 6: The Politics of Identity and Exclusion; Chapter 7: Fragmented Representations of American Identity in the Theater of the Vietnam War; Chapter 8: The 'NEA Four' and Performance Art: Making the Invisible Visible; Conclusion; Guide to Further Reading; Glossary.

About the Author

Annette J. Saddik is an Associate Professor in the English Department at New York City College of Technology (CUNY), where she specializes in twentieth-century drama. She holds a Ph.D from Rutgers University and is the author of The Politics of Reputation: The Critical Reception of Tennessee Williams' Later Plays (1999). Her next book, The Travelling Companion and Other Plays, a collection of Williams' previously unpublished later plays, will be published by New Directions in 2008.