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Staging Faith : Religion and African American Theater from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II /

In the years between the Harlem Renaissance and World War II, African American playwrights gave birth to a vital Black theater movement in the U.S. It was a movement overwhelmingly concerned with the role of religion in Black identity. In a time of profound social transformation fueled by a massive...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Prentiss, Craig R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:In the years between the Harlem Renaissance and World War II, African American playwrights gave birth to a vital Black theater movement in the U.S. It was a movement overwhelmingly concerned with the role of religion in Black identity. In a time of profound social transformation fueled by a massive migration from the rural south to the urban-industrial centers of the north, scripts penned by dozens of Black playwrights reflected cultural tensions, often rooted in class, that revealed competing conceptions of religion's role in the formation of racial identity.
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages).
ISBN:9780814708408