American Drama

Call for Articles
Special Issue for Summer 2007

American Drama And Working Class Experience
Deadline: 15 December 2006

American Drama invites submissions for a special issue on Working Class Experience in American Drama. Original essays on play texts, scripts for TV and movies that explore the drama of American working class lives, the American sense of class, the spectacle of the American worker’s struggle, the disappearance of the American working class, or the portrayal of the crisis of representation of class in the mass media. The essays may refer to working class experience as a physical, psychological, political or spiritual site of contestation, and they may reflect on any era of American working class history. They may also discuss such theoretical topics as the uses and limits of naturalism and realism to dramatize working class experience, the construction of working class identities, and the intersections of race, class and gender in the representation of working lives. We are interested in essays that expand ideas of “Working class drama” beyond the local to the global, that explore the pressures of commodification and reification on working class lives and that re-define the locus and dramatic expression of contemporary work in the United States. Submissions for the Summer 2007 Issue are due by 12/15/2006.

All articles for American Drama should not exceed five thousand words in length and should be prepared according to the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Fourth Edition, using parenthetical source references. On the recommendation of two readers, the journal accepts the best material it receives. The editor takes six to nine months to arrive at a decision. Manuscripts must be accompanied by return postage. Once accepted, authors will be required to send their text in digital form.