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Overview
Arcadia, Indiana is a mutant tragedy, a five act-sonnet sequence, staged in the trash-choked landscape of pastoral fantasy. It plays with narrative, labor, sexuality, and form, starting with a murder in an Indiana steel factory and ending with the Sphinx refusing all of Oedipus' solutions to her riddles. This play is a Renaissance tragedy in contemporary drag, destabilizing literary boundaries to develop a poetics of trash, in which the repressed and discarded parts of (literary) history return to strangle their point of origin.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780991418381
- ISBN-10: 0991418387
- Publisher: 53rd State Press
- Publish Date: July 2017
- Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.25 pounds
- Page Count: 64
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