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Racing the Great White Way : Black Performance, Eugene O'Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway /

The early drama of Eugene O'Neill, with its emphasis on racial themes and conflicts, opened up extraordinary opportunities for Black performers to challenge racist structures in modern theater and cinema. By adapting O'Neill's dramatic text-changing scripts to omit offensive epithets,...

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Autor principal: Johnson, Katie N. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, [2023]
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