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African-American performance and theater history : a critical reader

Title
  1. African-American performance and theater history : a critical reader / edited by Harry J. Elam, Jr., David Krasner.
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  1. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

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Additional authors
  1. Elam, Harry Justin.
  2. Krasner, David, 1952-
Description
  1. xiv, 367 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  1. American drama > African American authors > History and criticism
  2. African American theater
Contents
  1. 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 Jone's Corregidora / Christina E. Sharpe -- African American theater: the state of the profession, past, present, and future / roundtable discussion edited by Harry J. Elam, Jr., and David Krasner -- Afterword: change is coming / David Krasner.
Call number
  1. MWET 01-8790
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-356) and index.
Title
  1. African-American performance and theater history : a critical reader / edited by Harry J. Elam, Jr., David Krasner.
Imprint
  1. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-356) and index.
Added author
  1. Elam, Harry Justin.
  2. Krasner, David, 1952-
LCCN
  1. 00022463
ISBN
  1. 0195127242 (alk. paper)
  2. 0195127250 (pbk.)
Research call number
  1. MWET 01-8790
  2. MWET 03-1520
  3. Sc E 01-618
  4. Sc E 03-1451
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