LETTERATURA E CULTURA DEGLI STATI UNITI D'AMERICA II
(objectives)
- Become familiar with key aspects of US history and culture - Understand African American drama and theatre as significant parts of US culture and as literary and artistic productions through which American national identity has been constructed and deconstructed. - Learn about the most influential twentieth- and twenty-first-century American playwrights and their work. - Understand the conventions of dramatic literature and a range of different dramatic and performative styles (melodrama, realism, naturalism, expressionism, symbolism, Epic Theatre, postmodern theatre). - Learn and use effective terminology for reading and analyzing dramatic texts. - Analyze an African American play by considering elements such as dramatic structure and action, dialogue, monologue, stage directions, textual and visual metaphors and symbols. - Translating a short excerpt (a brief scene or a monologue) from an African American play.
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