This page serves as a starting point for doing dramaturgical research about Fires in the Mirror by Anna Deavere Smith.
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Worlds of the Play Look for information about the political, social, historical, and economic environment of the play. |
 | African Americans and Relations with Jews |
| Crown Heights, New York |
| Cultural Differences |
| Ethnic Identity |
| Minstrel Tradition |
| Oral History |
| Race Relations |
SIMON Subject Headings:
| African Americans Relations With Jews |
| Race Relations |
| The Author and His/Her Worlds Look for playwright's influences, life experiences, dominant themes, social, political, philosophical, and moral attitudes of the day. |
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Books
| Contemporary Authors / REF Z1224 .C6 1967
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| Contemporary Authors New Revision Series / REF Z1224 .C6 1981
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| International Dictionary of Theatre / REF PN2035 .I49 1992 | ||
| The Female Dramatist : Profiles of Women Playwrights from the Middle Ages to Contemporary Times / REF PN471 .P37 1998 |
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Reference; book stacks are located on the main floor, across from the I-Commons
Databases
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Drama Criticism, Reviews & Production History Look for original and subsequent productions, analysis of the play's contributions to literature |
Books
| Contemporary African American Female Playwrights: An Annotated
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| Contemporary Literary Criticism / REF PN771 .C59
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| "Awards Versus Achievements", pp. 145-148 in Dumbocracy in America, by Robert Brustein. / PN2266.5 B78 1994 | ||
| "Doing Justice to the Subjects: Mimetic Art in a Multicultural Society: The Work of Anna Deavere Smith", pp. 57-76 in Female Subjects in Black and White: Race, Psychoanalysis, and Feminism, ed. by Elizabeth Abel, Barbara Christian, & Helene Moglen. |
Databases
| Academic Search Premier |
| Arts & Humanities Search |
| Humanities International Complete |
| Lexis Nexis Academic |
| MLA Bibliography |
| Project Muse |
| Research Library |
| JSTOR |
Sample Journal Articles
| Myers, E.M. Performing personal narrative: Anna Deavere Smith's Fires in the mirror. English Journal v. 87 (February 1998) p. 52-7 |
| Reinelt, J. Performing race: Anna Deavere Smith's Fires in the mirror. Modern Drama v. 39 (Winter 1996) p. 609-17 |
| Images & Sound Look for video clips, music, photographs, and images (representational, metaphorical, and abstract). |
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Books
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Illustration Index/ N7525.V3 Reference
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SIMON Search Tips:
| Combine your keyword with pictorial |
| Use sounds as subject heading |
| Limit keyword search to material type: film & video, music |
| recording, non-music recordings |
Databases
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Art Index, Includes references to images found in periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins | ||
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Web Sites 
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Sources, Analogues & Influences Look for those materials that helped provide a basis for the play, that influenced its development, or that share similar attributes, qualities, or characteristics |
Bertoldt Brecht - Die Strassenszene
Weber, Carl. "Brecht's 'Street Scene'-On Broadway, of All Places? A Conversation with Anna Deavere Smith." The Brecht Yearbook/Das Brecht-Jahrbuch, 20 (1995), pp. 50-64.
Hu, Sherwood Xuehua; The Legend of Prince Lanling; Ong, Han; The L. A. Plays
Sun, William H.; and Fei, Faye C. "Masks or Faces Re-Visited: A Study of Four Theatrical Works Concerning Cultural Identity." TDR: The Drama Review: A Journal of Performance Studies, 38:4 (T144) (1994 Winter), pp. 120-32.
Mann, Emily; Greensboro; A Requiem; Kaufman, Moisés; The Laramie Project.
Claycomb, Ryan M. "(Ch)oral History: Documentary Theatre, the Communal Subject and Progressive Politics." Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, 17:2 (2003 Spring), pp. 95-122.
Kushner, Tony: Angels in America; Mamet, David; Oleanna
Elam, Harry J., Jr. "'Only in America': Contemporary American Theater and the Power of Performance," pp. 151-63. Maufort, Marc (ed. and section introd.); and Noppen, Jean-Pierre van (ed. and section introd.). Voices of Power: Co-Operation and Conflict in English Language and Literatures.
Hoch, Danny; Some People; Evolution of a Homeboy; Jails, Hospitals and Hip-Hop
Dolan, Jill. "'Finding Our Feet in the Shoes of (One An)Other': Multiple Character Solo Performers and Utopian Performatives." Modern Drama, 45:4 (2002 Winter), pp. 495-518.
See also sources in The Author & His/Her Worlds, Drama Criticism
| Look for the words "sources" or "influence" |
