Black theatre & performance studies : seminal critical essays & articles.

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In an introduction, Brooks surveys the history of African American dramatic performance from the earliest black theater companies in the early 19th century to the early 21st century. The author notes the early influence of vernacular cultural traditions that had long been practiced in by people of A...

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Main Author: Brooks, Daphne
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning, 2006.
Subjects:
African Americans > Drama.
American drama > African American authors.
African American theater > History.
Lynching > Drama.
Harlem Renaissance.
Feminist drama > History and criticism.
American drama > Women authors > History and criticism.
Performing arts > Social aspects > United States.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Genre:
Drama.
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Format: Electronic Book
Contents:
  • From the ground up
  • Setting the stage
  • Points of entry
  • Imagining a tradition
  • Strange fruit
  • The negro playwright & the racial mountain
  • Work, progress, revolution
  • Dreams deferred
  • Sister outsider
  • The past is present
  • So def & so wide
  • Criticism in the break
  • Endnotes.