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Central Man: The Paradox of Heroism in Modern American Drama by Rupendra Guha Majumdar (Paperback, 2003)

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Central Man traces the evolving dialectic of heroism in modern American drama in the light of the epic tension between the white and the black races. The emergence and subsequent waning of the New England Transcendentalist movement in the nineteenth century provides an apt context for a reappraisal of the heroic impulse in the narrative and dramatic forms that developed in the modern age of American enterprise. Drawing on these theoretical assumptions, this book examines the paradoxical genesis of an indigenous, multicultural and self-reliant voice on the American stage, starting from the beginning of the twentieth century, moving across the tumult of two World Wars and then proceeding on to the Vietnam era in the Sixties. In its refreshingly new approach, Central Man not only demystifies the classical and continental notions of heroism in American drama, but also demonstrates the ironic symbiosis of the historically unequal races of a great nation through and beyond the latter's inherent conflicts on the stage. The idea of the 'heroic' thus vindicates a pragmatic and natural discourse of transcendence at the fundamental level of humanity.

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Presses Interuniversitaires Europeennes
ISBN-13
9789052019789
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103592128

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Book Title
Central Man: the Paradox of Heroism in Modern American Drama
Author
Rupendra Guha Majumdar
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2003
Number of Pages
366 Pages

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220mm
Item Width
150mm
Volume
3
Item Weight
530g

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Title_Author
Rupendra Guha Majumdar
Issn
1376-3199
Series Title
Dramaturgies Textes, Cultures Et Representations Texts, Cultures and Performances
Country/Region of Manufacture
Belgium

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