Staging black fugitivity / Stacie Selmon McCormick.

"Argues that contemporary black dramas use the slave past to complicate views of the history of slavery, the realities of racial progress, and black subjectivity. McCormick analyzes work by August Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks, Tanya Barfield, Lorraine Hansberry, Lydia Diamond, Robert O'Hara, and Branden...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Black performance and cultural criticism.
Main Author: McCormick, Stacie Selmon (Author)
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2019]
Series:Black performance and cultural criticism.
Subjects:
American drama > African American authors > History and criticism.
Slavery in literature.
African Americans > Race identity.
Racism in literature.
American drama > African American authors.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:xiii, 162 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: A body without a nation
  • Mapping fugitivity in black drama
  • Fugitive acts
  • Performing escape
  • Fugitive intimacies
  • Epilogue: Contemplating and complicating black freedom.