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Reading Contemporary African American Drama
Author | : Trudier Harris |
Publsiher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0820488860 |
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Contemporary African American Women Playwrights
Author | : Philip C. Kolin |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2007-11-07 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781135866488 |
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'The impressive array of scholars gathered in this collection, all experts in the field, read the plays with nuance and situate them deftly within their cultural and historical contexts. Scholars of contemporary theater and drama and of African American literature will find value in this engaging collection.' – Choice 'For students and scholars of American theatre and drama generally and African American theatre and drama most particularly, this is an extremely valuable critical source.' – Harry Elam, Stanford University, USA In the last fifty years, American and World theatre has been challenged and enriched by the rise to prominence of numerous female African American dramatists. Contemporary African American Women Playwrights is the first critical volume to explore the contexts and influences of these writers, and their exploration of black history and identity through a wealth of diverse, courageous and visionary dramas. Kolin compiles a wealth of new essays, comprising: Yale scholar David Krasner on the dramatic legacy of Lorraine Hansberry, Zora Neale Hurston, Marita Bonner and Georgia Douglas Johnson individual chapters devoted to: Alice Childress, Sonia Sanchez, Adrienne Kennedy, Ntozake Shange, Pearl Cleage, Aishah Rahman, Glenda Dickerson, Anna Deavere Smith and Suzan Lori-Parks an essay and accompanying interview with Lynn Nottage comprehensive discussion of attendant theatrical forms, from choreopoems and surrealistic plays, to documentary theatre and civil rights dramas, and their use in challenging racial and gender hierarchies. Contributors: Brandi Wilkins Catanese, Soyica Diggs, James Fisher, Freda Scott Giles, Joan Wylie Hall, Philip C. Kolin, David Krasner, Sandra G. Shannon, Debby Thompson, Beth Turner and Jacqueline Wood.
Black Thunder An Anthology of Contemporary African American Drama
Author | : William B. Branch |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 0780709020 |
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Reading Contemporary African American Literature
Author | : Beauty Bragg |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2014-11-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780739188798 |
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This book covers several distinctive moments of the post-civil rights era; the black power period, the affirmative action period, and the neoliberal period. It inspects representative texts and critical approaches associated with each period, covering a variety of authors and genres from Toni Morrison’s mythic fiction to Wahida Clark’s street lit.
The Facts on File Companion to American Drama
Author | : Jackson R. Bryer,Mary C. Hartig |
Publsiher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 657 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781438129662 |
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Features a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers.
African American Literature
Author | : Hans Ostrom,J. David Macey Jr. |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 571 |
Release | : 2019-11-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9798216043034 |
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This essential volume provides an overview of and introduction to African American writers and literary periods from their beginnings through the 21st century. This compact encyclopedia, aimed at students, selects the most important authors, literary movements, and key topics for them to know. Entries cover the most influential and highly regarded African American writers, including novelists, playwrights, poets, and nonfiction writers. The book covers key periods of African American literature—such as the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and the Civil Rights Era—and touches on the influence of the vernacular, including blues and hip hop. The volume provides historical context for critical viewpoints including feminism, social class, and racial politics. Entries are organized A to Z and provide biographies that focus on the contributions of key literary figures as well as overviews, background information, and definitions for key subjects.
Contemporary African American Theater
Author | : Nilgun Anadolu-Okur |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2013-01-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781136614231 |
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The Black Arts Movement was sparked by the Civil Rights movement and the urge to produce and revitalize functional, realistic, and holistic symbols to express African American creativity. When Larry Neal began his quest for a new dramatic form to epitomize African American self-determination he laid the foundation upon which his friends and compatriots-Amiri Baraka and Charles Fuller-would build. Expressing their individual protests through their writings, these artists soon united in their attack against Eurocentrism, which traditionally minimized or neglected the roles played by Africans and African Americans on the world stage. Their writings signaled a radical change in the form and content of African American writing, particularly drama. In this insightful examination of African American cultural history, the author explores the heart of the dramatic imagination of African Americans during the turbulent years of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. The analysis of the works of these three important dramatists reveals the roots of an Afrocentric approach to the theater, and introduces a new methodology for exploring Afrocentrism that is particularly suited to classes in African American drama and literature.ࠁ
American Drama
Author | : Jacqueline Foertsch |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2017-09-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781137605290 |
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An essential introductory textbook that guides students through 300 years of American plays, as well as their remarkable engagement with texts from across the Atlantic. Divided into seven historical periods, Jacqueline Foertsch offers unique overviews of 38 American plays and their reception, from Robert Hunter's Androboros (c.1714) to Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton (2015). Each historical section begins with an overseas play that proved influential to American playwrights in that period, demonstrating to students an astonishing dialogue taking place across the Atlantic. This is an ideal core text for modules on American Drama – or a supplementary text for broader modules on American Literature – which may be offered at the upper levels of an undergraduate literature, drama, theatre studies or American studies degree. In addition it is a crucial resource for students who may be studying American drama as part of a taught postgraduate degree in literature, drama or American studies.