SOURCE: "Ambivalence, Utopia, and a Queer Sort of Materialism: How Angels in America Reconstructs the Nation," in Theatre Journal, Vol. 47, No. 2, May 1995, pp. 207-27.
In the essay below, Savran attempts to answer the question of why "a play featuring five gay male characters [is being universalized as a 'turning point' in the American theatre, and minoritized as the preeminent gay male artifact of the 1990s. "]
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