African American Performance and Theater History

A Critical Reader

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

Av Harry J. Elam, David Krasner, Stanford University) Elam, Harry J., Jr. (Professor, Director of Committee on Black Performing Arts, Professor, Director of Committee on Black Performing Arts, Yale University) Krasner, David (Director of Undergraduate Theater Studies, Director of Undergraduate Theater Studies, Jr. Elam, Harry Justin, Harry Justin Jr. Elam

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African-American Performance and Theater History is an anthology of critical writings that explores the intersections of race, theatre, and performance in America. Assembled by two of the most respected and prolific scholars in black theater and composed of essays from acknowledged authorities in the field (Joe Roach and Genevieve Fabre, among others), this volume is organized into four sections representative of the ways black theatre, drama, and performance past and present interact and enact continuous social, cultural, and political dialogues. The premise behind the book is that analysing African-American theatre and performance traditions offers insight into how race has operated and continues to operate in American society. The only one-volume collection of its kind, this volume is likely to become the central reference for those studying black theatre.

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Utgivningsdatum2001-02-15
Mått178 x 254 x 20 mm
Vikt662 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor384
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780195127256

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Harry J. Elam, Jr. is Christensen Professor for the Humanities, Director of the Introduction to the Humanities, Director of Graduate Studies for Drama, and Director of the Committee on Black Performing Arts at Stanford University. David Krasner is Director of Undergraduate Theater Studies at Yale University, where he teaches theatre history, acting, and directing. His book, Resistance, Parody, and Double Consciousness in African-American Theatre 1895-1910, won the Errol Hill award from ASTR.

Harry J. Elam, Jr.: The Device of Race: An IntroductionPART I: SOCIAL PROTEST AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION1: Judith Williams: Uncle Tom's Women2: Margaret B. Wilkerson: Political Radicalism and Artistic Innovation in the Works of Lorraine Hansberry3: Mike Sell: The Black Arts Movement: Performance, Neo-Orality, and the Destruction of the "White Thing"4: William Sonnega: Beyond a Liberal AudiencePART II: CULTURAL TRADITIONS, CULTURAL MEMORY, AND PERFORMANCE5: Joseph R. Roach: Deep Skin: Reconstructing Congo Square6: Telia U. Anderson: "Calling on the Spirit": The Performativity of Black Women's Faith in the Baptist Church Spritual Traditions and Its Radical Possibilities for Resistance7: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: The Chitlin Circuit8: Sandra G. Shannon: Audience and Africanisms in August Wilson's Dramaturgy: A Case of StudyPART III: INTERSECTIONS OF RACE AND GENDER9: Annemarie Bean: Black Minstrelsy and Double Inversion, Circa 189010: David Krasner: Black Salome: Exoticism, Dance, and Racial Myths11: Kimberly D. Dixon: Uh Tiny Land Mass Just Outside of My Vocabulary: Expression of Creative Nomadism and Contemporary African American Playwrights12: Jay Plum: Attending Walt Whitman High: The Lessons of Pomo Afro Homos' Dark FruitPART IV: AFRICAN AMERICAN PERFORMATIVITY AND THE PERFORMANCE OF RACE13: Diana R. Paulin: Acting Out Miscegenation14: Tina Redd: Birmingham's Federal Theater Project Negro Unit: The Administration of Race15: Harry J. Elam, Jr.: 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 Gordone16 The Costs of Re-Membering: What's at Stake in Gayl Jones's Corregidora: Christina E. Sharpe: PART V: ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WITH SENIOR SCHOLARS17: Round-table discussion edited by Harry J. Elam, Jr. and David Krasner: African American Theater: The State of the Profession, Past, Present, and FutureDavid Krasner: Afterword: Change Is ComingSelected BibliographyIndex

Exciting collection ... The accessibility of the writing and the wide range of topics covered by individual contributors make this collection a useful resource for undergraduates, while there is enough new and provocative material here to make worthwhile reading for those researching American theatre and race at a more advanced level. Overall, an important addition to the field of American theatre studies.