Experiments in democracy : interracial and cross-cultural exchange in American theatre, 1912-1945 /

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In the first half of the twentieth century, a number of American theatres and theatre artists fostered interracial collaboration and socialization on stage, behind the scenes, and among audiences. In an era marked by entrenched racial segregation and inequality, these artists used performance to bri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Shandell, Jonathan (Editor ), Black, Cheryl, 1954- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2016]
Colección:Theater in the Americas.
Temas:
1900-1999
Minorities in literature.
Race relations in literature.
American drama > 20th century > History and criticism.
Ethnicity in the theater.
Race in the theater.
Theater and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Theater > United States > History > 20th century.
Relations raciales dans la littérature.
Théâtre américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Ethnicité au théâtre.
Race au théâtre.
Théâtre et société > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Théâtre > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th century.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > Direction & Production.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > General.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > History & Criticism.
American drama.
Theater.
Theater and society.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Trying on The Yellow Jacket: performing Chinese exclusion and assimilation (1912-28) / Ju Yon Kim
  • Jazz, jews, and modernism on Broadway: from Lady, Be Good! to Show Boat (1924-27) / Stuart J. Hecht
  • Reconfiguring race and citizenship: the Teatro Vernáculo of La Unión Martí-Maceo (1930-40) / Eric Mayer-García
  • A cosmogony for the martinalized: Lynn Riggs, mythmaking, and multiracial-homosexual apologetics (1931-32) / W. Douglas Powers
  • Moving the world toward brotherhood: representations of cultural "otherness" in the theatre union's Black Pit (1935) / Cheryl Black and Anne Fletcher
  • (Re)visioning Mexican intellectual and peasant life: Josefina Niggli's plays with the Carolina playmakers (1936-38) / Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez
  • The politics of black masculinity in Theodore Browne's Natural Man (1937) / Harry J. Elam Jr.
  • Choreographing diversity and American experience: Myra Kinch and group, federal theatre project (1937-39) / Margaret F. Savilonis
  • Imagined democracy: the federal theatre project performs (native) America (1938-39) / Elizabeth A. Osborne
  • "Ethnic Americanism" versus isolationism: pluralistic antifascism in "fun to be free" (1941) / Garrett Eisler
  • "Spain ... brought me back to America": ghostings of other races in Paul Robeson's Othello and José Ferrer's Iago (1943) / Lisa Jackson-Schebetta
  • Turning "negroes" into "people" onstage: Anna Lucasta in Harlem and on Broadway (1944) / Jonathan Shandell
  • The stage door canteen: the American theatre wing's experiment in integration (1942-45) / Andrea Nouryeh.

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