Contents
American Stages (Curtain Raiser) / Jeffrey D. Mason
Introduction / J. Ellen Gainor
Part One: Nation Then
The Theater and the Republic: Defining Party on Early Boston's Rival Stages / Ginger Strand
Archiving Culture: Performance and American Museums in the Earlier Nineteenth Century / Rosemarie K. Bank
Taming America as Actress: Augustin Daly, Ada Rehan, and the Discourse of Imperial Frontier Conquest / Kim Marra
American Vaudeville, American Empire / Leigh Woods
"The Most American Thing in America": Producing National Identities in Chautauqua, 1904–1932 / Charlotte Canning
"The Pageant Is the Thing": Black Nationalism and The Star of Ethiopia / David Krasner
"The Drama of Transformation": Settlement House Idealism and the Neighborhood Playhouse / Ann Larabee
Part Two: Nation Now
"Speaking a Language That We Both Understand": Reconciling Feminism and Cultural Nationalism in Asian American Theater / Josephine Lee
Performing Aztlán: The Female Body as Cultural Critique in the Teatro of Cherríe Moraga / Tiffany Ana López
Echoes from the Black (W)hole: An Examination of The America Play by Suzan-Lori Parks / Harry Elam and Alice Rayner
Marking Change, Marking America: Contemporary Performance and Men's Autobiographical Selves / Robert H. Vorlicky
Queering the Nation / David Savran
American Stages (Afterpiece) / Jeffrey D. Mason
Contributors
Index