1st Edition
The Embattled Academy Staging the Culture Wars in Twenty-First-Century U.S. Drama
Acknowledgements
Introduction.
“Desperate and difficult times”: Re-visiting the Crisis in Higher Education
Chapter One.
“[R]ace in America is a mindfuck.”: Lydia R. Diamond’s Smart People (2014)
Chapter Two.
“[I]t’s all about privilege.”: David Mamet’s Oleanna (1992)
Chapter Three.
“[Liberals] who have made themselves comfortable in a white supremacist world”: Eleanor Burgess’ The Niceties (2018)
Chapter Four.
“I despise the world you’re trying to create.”: Will Arbery’s Heroes of the Fourth Turning (2019) and Paul Grellong’s Power of Sail (2019)
Chapter Five.
“They only want who they want. They don’t let anyone else in.”: Julia Cho’s Office Hour (2016)
Chapter Six.
“I wrestle with legacy.”: Thomas Bradshaw’s Purity (2007) and Idris Goodwin’s Blackademics (2015)
Chapter Seven.
“Art is not going to change laws, but it might make apparent something we didn’t see about how we all grew up.”: Claudia Rankine’s The White Card (2018)
Conclusion.
“The best way I knew how to stay woke”
Index
Biography
Heath A. Diehl is a teaching professor at Bowling Green State University, Ohio, U.S.A.
