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Prefiguring postblackness : cultural memory, drama, and the African American freedom struggle of the 1960s /
"Prefiguring Postblackness explores the tensions between cultural memory of the African American Freedom Struggle and representations of African American identity staged in five plays produced between 1959 and 1969 during the Freedom Struggle era. Carol Bunch Davis shows how these plays' r...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Postblack Ethos in "Texts Out of Time": Rosa Parks and the African American Freedom Struggle in Cultural Memory; Chapter One: "One for Whom Bread-Food-Is Not Enough": Beneatha Younger, Uplift Ideology, and Intellectual Freedom; Chapter Two: "A Ghost of the Future": Racial (Mis)perception and Black Subjectivity in LeRoi Jones's Dutchman; Chapter Three: "Ghost(s) in the House!": Black Subjectivity and Howard Sackler's The Great White Hope.
- Chapter Four: Gathering Black Subjectivities and Cultural Memory in Alice Childress's Wine in the WildernessChapter Five: Prefiguring Postblackness in Charles Gordone's No Place to Be Somebody: A Black Black Comedy in Three Acts; Coda: Postblackness's Ancestors and Relatives or "The Past Pushing Us into the Present"; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.