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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.
Contents
Harry J. Elam, Jr.: The Device of Race: An Introduction
PART I: SOCIAL PROTEST AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION
1: Judith Williams: Uncle Tom's Women
2: Margaret B. Wilkerson: Political Radicalism and Artistic Innovation in the Works of Lorraine Hansberry
3: Mike Sell: The Black Arts Movement: Performance, Neo-Orality, and the Destruction of the "White Thing"
4: William Sonnega: Beyond a Liberal Audience
PART II: CULTURAL TRADITIONS, CULTURAL MEMORY, AND PERFORMANCE
5: Joseph R. Roach: Deep Skin: Reconstructing Congo Square
6: 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 Resistance
7: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: The Chitlin Circuit
8: Sandra G. Shannon: Audience and Africanisms in August Wilson's Dramaturgy: A Case of Study
PART III: INTERSECTIONS OF RACE AND GENDER
9: Annemarie Bean: Black Minstrelsy and Double Inversion, Circa 1890
10: David Krasner: Black Salome: Exoticism, Dance, and Racial Myths
11: Kimberly D. Dixon: Uh Tiny Land Mass Just Outside of My Vocabulary: Expression of Creative Nomadism and Contemporary African American Playwrights
12: Jay Plum: Attending Walt Whitman High: The Lessons of Pomo Afro Homos' Dark Fruit
PART IV: AFRICAN AMERICAN PERFORMATIVITY AND THE PERFORMANCE OF RACE
13: Diana R. Paulin: Acting Out Miscegenation
14: Tina Redd: Birmingham's Federal Theater Project Negro Unit: The Administration of Race
15: 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 Gordone
16 The Costs of Re-Membering: What's at Stake in Gayl Jones's Corregidora: Christina E. Sharpe:
PART V: ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WITH SENIOR SCHOLARS
17: Round-table discussion edited by Harry J. Elam, Jr. and David Krasner: African American Theater: The State of the Profession, Past, Present, and Future
David Krasner: Afterword: Change Is Coming
Selected Bibliography
Index
