Prefiguring postblackness : cultural memory, drama, and the African American freedom struggle of the 1960s / Carol Bunch Davis.

"Prefiguring Postblackness explores the tensions between cultural memory of the African American Freedom Struggle and representations of African American identity staged in five plays produced between 1959 and 1969 during the Freedom Struggle era. Carol Bunch Davis shows how these plays' representat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bunch Davis, Carol (Author)
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]
Subjects:
American drama > African American authors > History and criticism.
American drama > 20th century > History and criticism.
African Americans > Race identity.
African Americans in literature.
African American theater.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Drama.
American drama.
American drama > African American authors.
Drama.
Schwarze > Motiv.
Ethnische Identität > Motiv.
Bürgerrechtsbewegung > Motiv.
Kollektives Gedächtnis.
USA.
Afroamerikaner.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:x, 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : The postblack ethos in "Texts out of time" : Rosa Parks and the African American freedom struggle in cultural memory
  • "One for whom bread
  • Food
  • Is not enough" : Beneatha Younger, Uplift ideology, and intellectual freedom
  • " A Ghost of the Future" : Racial (Mis)perception and black subjectivity in LeRoi Jones's Dutchman
  • "Ghost(s) in the House!" : Black subjectivity and Howard Sackler's The Great White Hope
  • Gathering black subjectivities and cultural memory in Alice Childress's Wine in the Wilderness
  • Prefiguring postblackness in Charles Gordone's No Place to Be Somebody: A Black Black Comedy in Three Acts
  • Postbackness's ancestors and relatives of "The Past Pushing Us into the Present."