Experiments in Democracy : Interracial and Cross-Cultural Exchange in American Theatre, 1912-1945 /

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"Essays in "Experiments in Democracy" look at theatre groups, as well as individual playwrights and their works, to examine how theatre artists used performance to try to bridge America's persistent racial divide and sought strategies for bringing different communities and cultur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Black, Cheryl, 1954- (Editor ), Shandell, Jonathan (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Theater and society.
Theater.
Race relations in literature.
Race in the theater.
Minorities in literature.
Ethnicity in the theater.
American drama.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > General.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > Direction & Production.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
Theâtre > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Theâtre et societe > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Race au theâtre.
Ethnicite au theâtre.
Theâtre americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Relations raciales dans la litterature.
Theater > United States > History > 20th century.
Theater and society > United States > History > 20th century.
American drama > 20th century > History and criticism.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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 Jose 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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