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The African American theatrical body : reception, performance, and the stage /
"Presenting an innovative approach to performance studies and literary history, Soyica Colbert argues for the centrality of black performance traditions to African American literature, including preaching, dancing, blues and gospel, and theatre itself, showing how these performance traditions c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Presenting an innovative approach to performance studies and literary history, Soyica Colbert argues for the centrality of black performance traditions to African American literature, including preaching, dancing, blues and gospel, and theatre itself, showing how these performance traditions create the 'performative ground' of African American literary texts. Across a century of literary production using the physical space of the theatre and the discursive space of the page, W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, August Wilson and others deploy performances to re-situate black people in time and space. The study examines African American plays past and present, including A Raisin in the Sun, Blues for Mister Charlie and Joe Turner's Come and Gone, demonstrating how African American dramatists stage black performances in their plays as acts of recuperation and restoration, creating sites that have the potential to repair the damage caused by slavery and its aftermath"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 329 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-317) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139161695 1139161695 9781139159647 113915964X 9781139027243 1139027247 1283342642 9781283342643 9781139157889 1139157884 1107229804 9781107229808 1139153110 9781139153119 9786613342645 6613342645 1139160699 9781139160698 1139156128 9781139156127 |