American Labor on Stage: Dramatic Interpretations of the Steel and Textile Industries in the 1930s by Duffy, Susan

American Labor on Stage: Dramatic Interpretations of the Steel and Textile Industries in the 1930s (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313298615)

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American Labor on Stage: Dramatic Interpretations of the Steel and Textile Industries in the 1930s by Duffy, Susan

American Labor on Stage: Dramatic Interpretations of the Steel and Textile Industries in the 1930s

$80.00
American Labor on Stage: Dramatic Interpretations of the Steel and Textile Industries in the 1930s by Duffy, Susan

American Labor on Stage: Dramatic Interpretations of the Steel and Textile Industries in the 1930s

$80.00
Format: Hardcover
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This study reclaims a lost body of theatrical work by focusing on four labor plays of the 1930s. These works dramatize union organizing efforts in American industry, using documentary detail in the dialogue and plot. To date, little attention has been given to the use of documentary detail in American scripts. Placing the labor plays in a social and historical context, Duffy raises interesting questions about the depiction of women as labor leaders and the overlooked role of women playwrights in the 1920s and 30s. The discussion focuses on the function of the plays and the question of whether they were merely didactic or if they served greater propagandistic ends. This work will be of interest to scholars in theatre history, American studies, southern history, and American labor history.

Author: Susan Duffy
ISBN-10: 0313298610
ISBN-13: 9780313298615
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 09/13/1996
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
By Susan Duffy
By Susan Duffy
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SUSAN DUFFY is Professor of Speech Communication at California Polytechnic State University. Her research interests focus on propagandistic uses of the theatre by leftist groups in the 1920s-1940s. She has published Shirley Chisholm: A Bibliography of Writings By and About Her (1988), and The Political Left in the American Theatre of the 1930's: A Bibliographic Sourcebook (1992).

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