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| Title: | African-American performance and theater history : a critical reader / |
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| Database Name: | WorldCat |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Harry Justin Elam; David Krasner |
| ISBN: | 0195127242 (alk. paper); 9780195127249 (alk. paper); 0195127250 (pbk.); 9780195127256 (pbk.) |
| Notes: | Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-356) and index. |
| Description: | xiv, 367 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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., David Krasner -- Afterword: change is coming / David Krasner. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Harry J. Elam, Jr., David Krasner. |
| Year: | 2001. |
| Publisher: | Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, |
| Standard Numbers: | LCCN: 00022463 |
| Class Descriptors: | LC Class No.: PN2270.A35; Dewey No.: 792/.089/96073 |
| Actions: | Actions: cat Date: 20010330 Agent: vb MARC code for Institution: UPB |
| More information: | Publisher description Table of contents only Contributor biographical information |
| OCLC No.: | 43333701 |
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