Kushner’s American History and Politics as Millennium Approaches

Though gay themes prevail in Angels in America, Tony Kushner’s work critically examines issues crucial to the American identity. Kushner uses social criticism from the viewpoint of his characters, who as members of minority groups, voice, witness or exhibit the moral decay, spiritual depletion and self-destructiveness found at the very core of their society. This constant downward spiral is relieved by Kushners hope in man, who, as a social being, can have an impact on the historical process, mainly through political engagement and activism. ‘Though the threat of catastrophe, annihilation and despair looms large in his work, in man lays the hope and the potential for change, and therefore, salvation’ (Stephanovic, 2000: 151).

Angels in America Part One and Part Two premiered for the first time together at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles the night Bill Clinton was about to be elected the new president......

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Title: Politics Of Tony Kushners Angels In America
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