No Safe Spaces: Re-casting Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in American Theater

Contents

Contents Introduction 1 one Bearing the Weight of Reality The Theatricality of Cross-Racial Corporeal Encounters 23 two Re-casting Race Nontraditional Casting and Racial Formation 42 three Bodies Like Gardens Classical Tragedy and Comedy in Color 64 four Beyond Type Re-casting Modern Drama and National Identity 116 five The Theater, Not the City Genre and Politics in Antirealistic Drama 141 six Chasing Rainbows Re-casting Race and Ethnicity in the Broadway Musical 175 Afterword 222 Notes 229 Bibliography 261 Index 283 ...