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

Name: Staging Faith Religion and African American Theater from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II
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ISBN: 9780814708088

ISBN-10: 0814708080

ISBN-13: 9780814708088

Edition: 2013

Authors: Craig R. Prentiss

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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. Black playwrights pointed in quite different ways toward approaches to church, scripture, belief, and ritual that they deemed…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 10/25/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 233
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Craig R. Prentiss is Professor of Religious Studies at Rockhurst University, Kansas City, Missouri.



List of Illustrations


Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction



Setting the Stage



New Territory



Lynching and the Faraway God



Caught within the Shadow



Blackness in the Image of God


Conclusion


List of Acronyms


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index


About the Author