6 x 9. 336 pgs. 1 diagram, 4 illustrations. (2008) Paper 978-0-472-03307-2 $28.95S  Available Add to Cart Search this Book's Content About the Book Praise Look Inside Series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance Subjects African-American and African Studies / Cultural Studies / Literary Studies--Literary Criticism and Theory / Theater and Performance

Avant-Garde Performance and the Limits of Criticism
Approaching the Living Theatre, Happenings/Fluxus, and the Black Arts Movement

Mike Sell

Honorable Mention: 2004-05 Joe A. Callaway Prize for the Best Book in Drama and Theatre

Explores the dynamic interactions of performance, politics, and literary criticism in three U.S countercultures in the 1950s and 60s

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Praise for the Book

"This fine study of US avant-garde theater in the Cold War era will be of most interest to theater historians, critics, and theorists."
—Choice