This is the first full-length overview of the important work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. Anna Marie Smith clearly shows how Laclau and Mouffe's work has brought Gramscian, poststructuralist and psychoanalytic perspectives to revitalize traditional political theory. With clarity and insight, she shows how they have constructed a highly effective theory of identity formation and power relations that carefully draws from postmodern anti...
From "the most exciting individual in American theater" (News-week), here is Anna Deavere Smith's inspiring yet brass-tacks advice to all aspiring artists. "I have agreed to mentor you for a period of five years. Somebody you know made the highest bid on me as an item at a charity fundraiser. My deal was that I would mentor whomever 'won' me at the auction in some way for the next five years." In the manner of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, ...
Una apasionante introducción a los avances científicos que nos permiten alargar la vida y vivir mejor.
Desde el momento en que nacen, todas las personas están marcadas por su patrón genético, pero hace ya tiempo que la humanidad se ha rebelado contra este diseño. Las últimas muestras de ello son las importantes novedades obtenidas en la tecnología del ADN. QUÉ SOMOS REALMENTE constituye una auténtica guía para situarse ante esta nueva y sorpre...
Anna Deavere Smith's stunning new work of 'documentary theater' in which she uses verbatim the words of people who experienced the Los Angeles riots to expose and explore the devastating human impact of that event.
From the award-winning actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith, two teeming, pungent cross-sections of the American experience.In the provocative and at times bitterly funny play House Arrest, Smith examines the relationships between a succession of American presidents and their observers in and out of the press. Arcing from Clinton and Monica Lewinsky to Jefferson and Sally Hemings and alive with the voices of such real-life figures as Ed Bra...