Format:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 367 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0195127250
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0195127242
Content:
African American Performance and Theater History is an anthology of critical writings that explores the intersections of race, theater, and performance in America. Assembled by two esteemed scholars in black theater, Harry J. Elam, Jr. and David Krasner, and composed of essays from acknowledged authorities in the field, this anthology is organized into four sections representative of the ways black theater, drama, and performance interact and enact continual social, cultural, and political dialogues. Ranging from a discussion of dramatic performances of Uncle Tom's Cabin to the Black Art Movem
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-356) and index
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""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""The Device of Race: An Introduction""; ""PART I: SOCIAL PROTEST AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION""; ""1 Uncle Tom�s Women""; ""2 Political Radicalism and Artistic Innovation in the Works of Lorraine Hansberry""; ""3 The Black Arts Movement: Performance, Neo-Orality, and the Destruction of the “White Thing�""; ""4 Beyond a Liberal Audience""; ""PART II: CULTURAL TRADITIONS, CULTUTRAL MEMORY, AND PERFORMANCE""; ""5 Deep Skin: Reconstructing Congo Square""
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""6 “Calling on the Spirit�: The Performativity of Black Women�s Faith in the Baptist Church Spiritual Traditions and Its Radical Possibilities for Resistance""""7 The Chitlin Circuit""; ""8 Audience and Africanisms in August Wilson�s Dramaturgy: A Case Study""; ""PART III: INTERSECTIONS OF RACE AND GENDER""; ""9 Black Minstrelsy and Double Inversion, Circa 1890""; ""10 Black Salome: Exoticism, Dance, and Racial Myths""; ""11 Uh Tiny Land Mass Just Outside of My Vocabulary: Expression of Creative Nomadism and Contemporary African American Playwrights""
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""12 Attending Walt Whitman High: The Lessons of Pomo Afro Homos� Dark Fruit""""PART IV: AFRICAN AMERICAN PERFORMATIVITY AND THE PERFORMANCE OF RACE""; ""13 Acting Out Miscegenation""; ""14 Birmingham�s Federal Theater Project Negro Unit: The Administration of Race""; ""15 The Black Performer and the Performance of Blackness: The Escape; or, A Leap to Freedom by William Wells Brown and No Place To Be Somebody by Charles Gordone""; ""16 The Costs of Re-Membering: What�s at Stake in Gayl Jones�s Corregidora""; ""PART V: ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WITH SENIOR SCHOLARS""
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""17 African American Theater: The State of the Profession, Past, Present, and Future""""Roundtable discussion""; ""Afterword: Change Is Coming""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195127249
Additional Edition:
Print version African American Performance and Theater History A Critical Reader
Language:
English