African American Performance and Theater History A Critical Reader

Name: African American Performance and Theater History A Critical Reader
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ISBN: 9780195127249

ISBN-10: 0195127242

ISBN-13: 9780195127249

Edition: 2001

Authors: Harry J. Elam, David Krasner, Harry J. Elam

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African-American Performance and Theatre History is an anthology of critical writings that explores the intersections of race, theater, and performance in America. Assembled by two respected scholars in black theater and composed of essays from acknowledged authorities in the field (Joseph Roach and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. among other), this volume is organized into four sections representative of the ways black theater, drama, and performance past and present interact and enact continuous social, cultural, and political dialogues. The premise behind the book is that analyzing African-American theater and performance traditions offers insight into how race has operated and continues to…

Book details

List price: $200.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/18/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.02" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Contributors


African American Performance and Theater History


The Device of Race: An Introduction


Notes


Social Protest and the Politics of Representation


Uncle Tom's Women


Notes


Political Radicalism and Artistic Innovation in the Works of Lorraine Hansberry


Notes


Performance, Neo-Orality, and the Destruction of the "white Thing"


Notes


Beyond a Liberal Audience


Notes


Cultural Traditions, Cultural Memory, and Performance


Reconstructing Congo Square


Notes


The Performativity of Black Women's Faith in the Baptist Church Spiritual Traditions and Its Radical Possibilities for Resistance


Notes


The Chitlin Circuit


A Case Study


Notes


Intersections of Race and Gender


Black Minstrelsy and Double Inversion, Circa 1890


Notes


Exoticism, Dance, and Racial Myths


Notes


Expression of Creative Nomadism and Contemporary African American Playwrights


Notes


The Lessons of Pomo Afro Homos' Dark Fruit


Notes


African American Performativity and the Performance of Race


Acting Out Miscegenation


Notes


The Administration of Race


Notes


The Escape; Or, a Leap to Freedom by William Wells Brown and No Place to Be Somebody by Charles Gordone


Notes


What's at Stake in Gayl Jones's Corregidora


Notes


Roundtable Discussion with Senior Scholars


The State of the Profession, Past, Present, and Future


Change is Coming


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index