: The volume features analysis on how Kushner "queers" history by interrupting traditional narratives of progress and national exceptionalism, creating what some call an "angel archive" to explore a different future. Key Essays and Contributors
: Critics like Carla Bryony Douglas and James Fisher (whom Bloom calls a leading Kushner scholar) explore how Kushner’s plays negotiate human suffering and the potential for change through political activism, even in the face of spiritual depletion. Tony Kushner (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
: Noted for his extensive scholarship on the entirety of Kushner’s career, including "minor" works like A Bright Room Called Day and Hydriotaphia . Summary of Critical Reception : The volume features analysis on how Kushner
: Contributes a seminal piece on the intersections of queer and Jewish identities, specifically through the character of Roy Cohn. Summary of Critical Reception : Contributes a seminal
: Essays within the collection, such as those by Jonathan Freedman , examine how Kushner uses gay and Jewish identities to deconstruct the "American myth of the Individual".
: Provides the introductory essay focusing on Kushner’s place within the Western canon and his connection to 19th-century American epics.
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