The theatre of Sa'dallah Wannous : a critical study of the Syrian playwright and public intellectual / edited by Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, Robert Myers

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Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Transliteration and Translation -- Chronology of Wannous' Life, Plays, and Selected Writings -- Introduction -- Part I Situating Wannous -- 1 Wannous and Syrian and World Drama -- 2 Wannous and Brecht: The Playwright as Political Activist -- Part II Reading Wannous -- 3 Keeping Silent, or the Silence That Kept Wannous -- 4 The Failure of Revolutionary Humanism: Reading Wannous with Fanon -- 5 Historiography as Resistance in the Later Plays of Wannous -- Part III Staging Wannous -- 6 Rituals Transformed: Wannous, Intercultural Translation, and the Widening Gyre -- 7 Speaking the Unspeakable: On Directing Wannous -- 8 Conversation with Contemporary Playwright Mohammad Al Attar -- Part IV Remembering Wannous -- 9 Unpacking Wannous' Library -- 10 A Student of Theatre in Paris -- 11 Grammar of Life and Death -- 12 Be What You Want to Be -- List of Wannous' Plays -- Summaries of Wannous' Principal Plays -- Bibliography -- Index.

The Theatre of Sa'dallah Wannous is the first book in English to provide a clear sense of the complexities of Wannous' life and work, offering new perspectives on his significance as a playwright and public intellectual in both the Arab world and in world theatre.