A book about the role America plays in the French imagination, as it translates to the French stage. Informed by a rich variety of Western cultural scholarship, Essif examines two dozen post-1960 works representing some of the most innovative dramaturgy of the last half century, including works by Gatti, Obaldia, Cixous, Koltes, and Vinaver.

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Les Essif is the author of Empty Figure on an Empty Stage, The French Play, and numerous essays on French theatre and theories of drama and performance. He is currently a professor of French Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.

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Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: Part 1 Introduction: Part 2 1: The Hyperreality Of The Western Frontier 2: Homo Americanus War And Violence 3: The Totalitarian Non-Tragedy Of Americano-Global Business 4: The (Supra-)Global Spectacle Of American (Non-)Community Conclusion: Blob, Screen, And Corn: Final Figures of the Homo Americanus Hyperreal Notes Works Cited Index