African-American performance and theater history : a critical reader /

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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 auth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Elam, Harry Justin, Krasner, David, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Colección:OUP E-Books.
Temas:
African American theater.
American drama > African American authors > History and criticism.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
Théâtre noir américain.
Théâtre américain > Auteurs noirs américains > Histoire et critique.
Noirs américains > Vie intellectuelle.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > General.
American drama > African American authors.
Schwarze
Theater
Drama
Geschichte
Aufführung
Acteurs.
Amerika
USA
Schwärze
Multi-User.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The device of race: an introduction / Harry J. Elam, Jr.
  • Uncle Tom's women / Judith Williams
  • Political radicalism and artistic innovation in the works of Lorraine Hansberry / Margaret B. Wilkerson
  • The Black arts movement: performance, neo-orality, and the destruction of the "white thing" / Mike Sell
  • Beyond a liberal audience / William Sonnega
  • Deep skin: reconstructing Congo Square / Joseph R. Roach
  • "Calling on the Spirit": the performativity of Black women's faith in the Baptist church spiritual traditions and its radical possibilities for resistance / Telia U. Anderson
  • The chitlin circuit / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  • Audience and Africanisms in August Wilson's dramaturgy: a case study / Sandra G. Shannon
  • Black minstrelsy and double inversion, circa 1890 / Annemarie Bean
  • Black Salome: exoticism, dance, and racial myths / David Krasner
  • Uh tiny land mass just outside of my vocabulary: expression of creative nomadism and contemporary African American playwrights / Kimberly D. Dixon
  • Attending Walt Whitman High: the lessons of Pomo Afro Homos' Dark fruit / Jay Plum
  • Acting out miscegenation / Diana R. Paulin
  • Birmingham's Federal Theater Project Negro Unit: the administration of race / Tina Redd
  • 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 / Harry J. Elam, Jr.
  • The costs of re-membering: what's at stake in Gayl Jone's Corregidora / Christina E. Sharpe
  • African American theater: the state of the profession, past, present, and future / roundtable discussion edited by Harry J. Elam, Jr., David Krasner
  • Afterword: change is coming / David Krasner.

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