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African American performance and theater history : a critical reader
This volume explores the intersections of race, theater, and performance in America. It is arranged into areas representative of the ways black theater, drama, and performance interact and enact continuous social, cultural, and political dialogues.
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| 260 | |a New York ; |a Oxford : |b Oxford University Press, |c 2001. | ||
| 300 | |a 384 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 23 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a The device of race: an introduction / Harry J. Elam, Jr. -- Uncle Tom's women / Judith Williams -- Political radicalism and artistic innovation in the works of Lorraine Hansberry / Margaret B. Wilkerson -- The Black arts movement: performance, neo-orality, and the destruction of the "white thing" / Mike Sell -- Beyond a liberal audience / William Sonnega -- Deep skin: reconstructing Congo Square / Joseph R. Roach -- "Calling on the spirit": the performativity of Black women's faith in the Baptist church spiritual traditions and its radical possibilities for resistance / Telia U. Anderson -- The Chitlin circuit / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Audience and Africanisms in August Wilson's dramaturgy: a case study / Sandra G. Shannon -- Black Minstrelsy and double inversion, circa 1890 / AnneMarie Bean -- Black Salome: exoticism, dance and racial myths / David Krasner -- Uh tiny land mass just outside of my vocabulary: expression of creative nomadism and contemporary African American playwrights / Kimberly D. Dixon -- Attending Walt Whitman High: the lessons of pomo Afro homos' Dark fruit / Jay Plum -- Acting out miscegenation / Diana R. Paulin -- Birmingham's Federal Theater Project Negro Unit: the administration of race / Tina Redd -- The Black performer and the performance of blackness: The escape; or A leap to freedom by William Wells Brown and No place to be somebody by Charles Gordone / Harry J. Elam, Jr. -- The costs of re-membering: what's at stake in Gayl Jones's Corregidora / Christina E. Sharpe -- African American theater: the state of the profession, past, present and future -- Roundtable discussion / Harry J. Elam and David Krasner -- Afterword: change is coming / David Krasner. | |
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| 590 | |a Forrest Performing Arts Collection. | ||
| 590 | |a Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complimentary Collection. | ||
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