Table of Contents -- Marc Maufort: Staging Difference: A Challenge to the American Melting Pot 1 -- Cultural Pluralism and Performance 7 -- Sarah Blackstone: Simplifying the Native American: Wild West Shows Exhibit the "Indian" 9 -- Beverly Bronson Smith: The Semiotics of Difference: Representations of Ethnicity and Nativism in Early Twentieth Century American Theatre 19 -- Deborah Wood Holton: Who Do You See When You Look At Me? Black Core Values and African American Identity in Performance 31 -- Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei: Intercultural Directing: Revitalizing Force or Spiritual Rape? 45 -- Bruce A. McConachie: The "Oriental" Musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein and the U.S. War in Southeast Asia 57 -- Kim Marra: Marginal Experience/Mainstream Vision in the Theatrical Career of Zelda (Paldi) Sears 75 -- Felicia Hardison Londré: Confronting Shakespeare's "Political Incorrectness" in Production: Contemporary American Audiences and the New " Problem Plays" 85 -- The Canon of American Drama and Cultural Difference 108 -- Ronald R. Miller: Eugene O'Neill's First Transcultural Epic: "Universal History" in The Fountain 99 -- Martha Bower: The Pathology of Resistance to Cultural Assimilation in Eugene O'Neill's Late Plays 111 -- James A. Robinson: Both His Sons: Arthur Miller's The Price and Jewish Assimilation 121 -- Georges-Michel Sarotte: Fluidity and Differentiation in Three Plays by Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 141 -- Johan Callens: Sam Shepard's Inter/National Stage 157 -- Alain Piette: The Devil's Advocate: David Mamet's Oleanna and Political Correctness 173 -- The Emergence of a New Multicultural Drama 200 -- James S. Moy: Asian American Visibility: Touring Fierce Racial Geographies 191.

Robert Cooperman: New Theatrical Statements: Asian-Western Mergers in the Early Plays of David Henry Hwang 201 -- Granger Babcock: Looking for a Third Space: El Pachuco and Chicano Nationalism in Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit 215 -- John V Antush: The Internal Third World Voice and Postcolonial Literature: René Marqués's The Oxcart 227 -- Glenda Frank: The Struggle to Affirm: The Image of Jewish-Americans on Stage 245 -- Bette Mandl: "Alive Still, In You:" Memory and Silence in A Shayna Maidel 259 -- Yvonne Shafer: Breaking Barriers: August Wilson 267 -- Harry J. Elam, Jr.: Of Angels and Transcendence: An Analysis of Fences by August Wilson and Roosters by Milcha Sanchez-Scott 287 -- Savas Patsalidis: Adrienne Kennedy's Heterotopias and the (Im)possibilities of the (Black) Female Self 301 -- Patricia R. Schroeder: Re-Reading Alice Childress 323 -- Richard Wattenberg: Sophie Treadwell and the Frontier Myth: Western Motifs in Machinal and Hope for a Harvest 339 -- Daniel J. Watermeier: The Search for Self: Attachment, Loss and Recovery in The Heidi Chronicles 351 -- Appendices 363 -- Robert Cooperman: Across the Boundaries of Cultural Identity: An Interview with David Henry Hwang 365 -- Marc Maufort, with the assistance of Francine Lercangée and Myriam Lodeweyckx: Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre and Drama: A Selected Bibliography 375 -- Index 389 -- Notes on Contributors 393.