Yale French Studies, Volume 112 : The Transparency of the Text: Contemporary Writing for the Stage Book

Josette Féral & Donia Mounsef       

Editors' Preface: The Transparency of the Text

Part I: Avant and Après Garde

Tom Bishop

Whatever Happened to the Avant-Garde?

Jean-Pierre Ryngaert

Paroles en lambeaux et écritures d’entreparleurs

Bernadette Bost

Beyond Drama: Total Theater

Ariane Eissen

Myth in Contemporary French Theater: A Negotiable Legacy

Josette Féral

Language Crossings: The Unspoken Must Be Said

Part II: (Under)writing the Stage

David Bradby

Michel Vinaver: From Writing to Staging

Donia Mounsef

The Language of Desire and the Desire for Language in the Theatre of Koltès and Cixous

Clare Finburgh

Voix/Voie/Vie: The Voice in Contemporary French Theatre

Mary Noonan

L’Art de l’écrit s’incarnant: The Theatre of Noëlle Renaude

Part III: Disputed Textualities

Judith Miller

Is There A Specifically Francophone African Stage Textuality?

Sylvie Chalaye

Contemporary Francophone Writings for the Theater from Africa and the West Indies 

Yves Jubinville

Death and Birth of the Author: Toward a New History of Québécois Playwriting

Philippa Wehle

“Waiting for the Next Big Thing”: Why Do American Audiences Have Such Difficulty with Contemporary French Playwrights?