The African American theatrical body : reception, performance, and the stage /
Presenting an innovative approach to performance studies and literary history, Soyica Colbert argues for the centrality of black performance traditions to African American literature, including preaching, dancing, blues and gospel, and theatre itself, showing how these performance traditions create...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011
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Table of Contents:
- Overture: rites that render repairing: Suzan-Lori Parks The America Play
- 1. Repetition/reproduction: the DNA of black expressive culture: Lorraine Hansberrys A Raisin in the Sun
- 2. Recuperating black diasporic history: W.E.B. Du Bois The Star of Ethiopia
- 3. Reenacting the Harlem Renaissance: Zora Neale Hurstons Color Struck
- 4. Resisting shame, offering praise and worship: Langston Hughess Tambourines to Glory
- 5. Resisting death: the blues bravado of a ghost: James Baldwins Blues for Mister Charlie
- 6. Rituals of repair: Amiri Barakas Slave Ship and August Wilsons Joe Turners Come and Gone
- 7. Reconstitution: Suzan-Lori Parks Topdog/Underdog
- Epilogue: Black movements: Tarell Alvin McCraneys In the Red and Brown Water
- Overture: rites that render repairing: Suzan-Lori Parks' The America Play
- 1. Repetition/reproduction: the DNA of black expressive culture: Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun
- 2. Recuperating black diasporic history: W.E.B. Du Bois' The Star of Ethiopia
- 3. Reenacting the Harlem Renaissance: Zora Neale Hurston's Color Struck
- 4. Resisting shame, offering praise and worship: Langston Hughes's Tambourines to Glory
- 5. Resisting death: the blues bravado of a ghost: James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie
- 6. Rituals of repair: Amiri Baraka's Slave Ship and August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone
- 7. Reconstitution: Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog/Underdog
- Epilogue: Black movements: Tarell Alvin McCraney's In the Red and Brown Water
- Machine generated contents note: Overture: rites that render repairing: Suzan-Lori Parks' The America Play; 1. Repetition/reproduction: the DNA of black expressive culture: Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun; 2. Recuperating black diasporic history: W. E. B. Du Bois' The Star of Ethiopia; 3. Re-enacting the Harlem Renaissance: Zora Neale Hurston's Color Struck; 4. Resisting shame, offering praise and worship: Langston Hughes's Tambourines to Glory; 5. Resisting death: the blues bravado of a ghost: James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie; 6. Rituals of repair: August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone; 7. Reconstitution: Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog/Underdog; Epilogue: Black movements: Tarell Alvin McCraney's In the Red and Brown Water; Bibliography