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Author: J. Chris Westgate
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-06-20
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 0230119581
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIdentifying an apprehension about the nature and constitution of urbanism in North American plays, Westgate examines how cities like New York City and Los Angeles became focal points for identity politics and social justice at the end of the twentieth century, and how urban crises inform the dramaturgy of contemporary playwrights.
Author: Tony Carnegie
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2007-05
Total Pages: 135
ISBN-13: 0595449204
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The officer had gotten out of his car with his weapon drawn. He was tapping on the driver's side window with the barrel. I opened the door to get out, as I was getting out, I was asking what the problem was. I didn't get the whole sentence out before . POW, right in my nose. My knees buckled, I was going down. While I was on the ground I heard him asking, "where's the dope nigger, I know you rich boys come back to the hood to supply your buddies with the goods. Where is it?" I looked up and said, "I don't sell or have any . BAM, he kicked me right smack in my stomach. I could smell the bile come out of my mouth as I threw up everywhere. I looked at the other officer, and he was standing there frozen, as if he was gonna get his ass whipped. I decided I was going to stand up. There was gonna be no Rodney King incidents. I stood up and faced him, he struck me again, this time I held my ground, I was not going down. I could see all the neighbors gathering on the sidewalks, I got even stronger. When the officer noticed the crowd, he left to get in his cruiser. His partner was still standing there frozen; he had to blow the horn for him to get in. When they left, I jumped in my car and sped away."
Author: Braya Spice
Publisher: Urban Books
Published: 2012-04-24
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1599832879
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHave you ever had a friend who just seems to attract trouble, no matter what she does? That's Allure. Just 21, she barely made it out alive from an abusive relationship with her psycho baby daddy, Greg. Poor girl just wants to be loved, but the harder she tries to find the right man, the more wrong her life gets. Whether it's Lavante, who has to stuff socks in his pants to make himself feel manly; or Derek, who would be a fine catch if his bipolar disorder didn't almost get Allure killed; or Bryce, a sweet and sexy cop whose first love is the crack pipe; Allure bounces from one drama to another. Then there's James, strong and stable—until he knocks her up and hits the road. Get ready to laugh—and cry—at Allure's crazy love life.
Author: Jody Enders
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2005-05-15
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 0226207889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart of every legend is true. Or so argues Jody Enders in this fascinating look at early French drama and the way it compels us to consider where the stage ends and where real life begins. This ambitious and bracing study explores fourteen tales of the theater that are at turns dark and dangerous, sexy and scandalous, humorous and frightening—stories that are nurtured by the confusion between truth and fiction, and imitation and enactment, until it becomes impossible to tell whether life is imitating art, or art is imitating life. Was a convicted criminal executed on stage during a beheading scene? Was an unfortunate actor driven insane while playing a madman? Did a theatrical enactment of a crucifixion result in a real one? Did an androgynous young man seduce a priest when portraying a female saint? Enders answers these and other questions while presenting a treasure trove of tales that have long seemed true but are actually medieval urban legends. On topics ranging through politics, religion, marriage, class, and law, these tales, Enders argues, do the cultural work of all urban legends: they disclose the hopes, fears, and anxieties of their tellers. Each one represents a medieval meditation created or dramatized by the theater with its power to blur the line between fiction and reality, engaging anyone who watches, performs, or is represented by it. Each one also raises pressing questions about the medieval and modern world on the eve of the Reformation, when Europe had never engaged more anxiously and fervently in the great debate about what was real, what was pretend, and what was pretense. Written with elegance and flair, and meticulously researched, Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends will interest scholars of medieval and Renaissance literature, history, theater, performance studies, and anyone curious about urban legends.
Author: Tia Hines
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Destiny's wild behavior lands her in serious trouble with the law, it's up to her brother to again rescue her. Having no choice, he accepts a favor from a rogue cop--a favor that he'll soon regret taking that will cost much more than they're willing to pay.
Author: Tamicka Higgins
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-06-26
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781533563651
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn A Thug & His Queen: What Won't You Do?, three worlds are quickly and suddenly colliding. There is Danez and Ronnisha, who live the good life apartment downtown and have love that is stronger than anyone could imagine. Danez's best friend, Lamarcus, is finding himself quickly falling for Rain, a woman everyone else is not sure can be trusted. Qoree has Chocolate Bunny, or Lala, by his side. Little do any of these couple know, their lives are about to change...all over money. One night Lamarcus is kicking it with Rain when he has a surprise guest: Qoree. Qoree is furious that Lamarcus and Danez are making moves in his hood, The Land, without asking him first. Once Lamarcus winds up in the hospital, Danez makes it his goal to get not only get revenge , but also what was taken from Lamarcus' house, money, all while keeping himself and Ronnisha safe. InA Thug & His Queen: What Won't You Do?, betrayal, suspicion, and boldness will lead these three couples in differentdirections ...directions that will soon enough lead to one place and one goal. Ronnisha will quickly find out what it means to be a thug's queen, and everything that comes along with it...
Author: David J. Harding
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-04-15
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 0226316661
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor the middle class and the affluent, local ties seem to matter less and less these days, but in the inner city, your life can be irrevocably shaped by what block you live on. Living the Drama takes a close look at three neighborhoods in Boston to analyze the many complex ways that the context of community shapes the daily lives and long-term prospects of inner-city boys. David J. Harding studied sixty adolescent boys growing up in two very poor areas and one working-class area. In the first two, violence and neighborhood identification are inextricably linked as rivalries divide the city into spaces safe, neutral, or dangerous. Consequently, Harding discovers, social relationships are determined by residential space. Older boys who can navigate the dangers of the streets serve as role models, and friendships between peers grow out of mutual protection. The impact of community goes beyond the realm of same-sex bonding, Harding reveals, affecting the boys’ experiences in school and with the opposite sex. A unique glimpse into the world of urban adolescent boys, Living the Drama paints a detailed, insightful portrait of life in the inner city.
Author: Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2009-11
Total Pages: 505
ISBN-13: 158729642X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTheatres of Independence is the first comprehensive study of drama, theatre, and urban performance in post-independence India. Combining theatre history with theoretical analysis and literary interpretation, Aparna Dharwadker examines the unprecedented conditions for writing and performance that the experience of new nationhood created in a dozen major Indian languages and offers detailed discussions of the major plays, playwrights, directors, dramatic genres, and theories of drama that have made the contemporary Indian stage a vital part of postcolonial and world theatre.The first part of Dharwadker's study deals with the new dramatic canon that emerged after 1950 and the variety of ways in which plays are written, produced, translated, circulated, and received in a multi-lingual national culture. The second part traces the formation of significant postcolonial dramatic genres from their origins in myth, history, folk narrative, sociopolitical experience, and the intertextual connections between Indian, European, British, and American drama. The book's ten appendixes collect extensive documentation of the work of leading playwrights and directors, as well as a record of the contemporary multilingual performance histories of major Indian, Western, and non-Western plays from all periods and genres. Treating drama and theatre as strategically interrelated activities, the study makes post-independence Indian theatre visible as a multifaceted critical subject to scholars of modern drama, comparative theatre, theatre history, and the new national and postcolonial literatures.
Author: Relentless Aaron
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Published: 2009-09-29
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1429940549
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWelcome to Fool's Paradise where the women are devious, the men are ruthless, and the raw, undeniable climate of smut dominates. This is Douglass Gilmore's kingdom, a family business that grew to become one of New York City's premier adult clubs. But money, power, and seduction makes for an explosive combination—and something dangerous is about to go down... The most famous stripper at Fool's Paradise has been gunned down in the parking lot. Was it a lovers' quarrel? A rivalry between jealous dancers? Or a deliberate attempt to destroy the man behind the curtain? Douglass has won plenty of enemies in the business. Now, with the cops, the FBI, and the mob at his door, everything is on the line...and Douglass has only once chance to defend the family empire—or lose it all.
Author: Gregory W. Dobrov
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780807846452
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThirteen essays combine classical scholars' interest in theatrical production with a growing interdisciplinary inquiry into the urban contexts of literary production. At once a study of classical Greek literature and an analysis of cultural production, this collection reveals how for two centuries Athens itself was transformed, staged as comedy, and ultimately shaped by contemporary material, social, and ideological forces.
