The African American theatrical body : reception, performance, and the stage /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Colbert, Soyica Diggs, 1979-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Temas:
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Geschichte.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
DRAMA > American.
African Americans in literature
American literature > African American authors
Drama
Performance > Künste
Schwarze
Afrikaner.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Overture: rites that render repairing: Suzan-Lori Parks' The America Play
  • 1. Repetition/reproduction: the DNA of black expressive culture: Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun
  • 2. Recuperating black diasporic history: W.E.B. Du Bois' The Star of Ethiopia
  • 3. Reenacting the Harlem Renaissance: Zora Neale Hurston's Color Struck
  • 4. Resisting shame, offering praise and worship: Langston Hughes's Tambourines to Glory
  • 5. Resisting death: the blues bravado of a ghost: James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie
  • 6. Rituals of repair: Amiri Baraka's Slave Ship and August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone
  • 7. Reconstitution: Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog/Underdog
  • Epilogue: Black movements: Tarell Alvin McCraney's In the Red and Brown Water.

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