Preaching the blues : black feminist performance in lynching plays / Maisha S. Akbar.

"Preaching the Blues: Black Feminist Performance in Lynching Plays examines several lynching plays to foreground black women's performances as non-normative subjects who challenge white supremacist ideology. Maisha S. Akbar re-maps the study of lynching drama by examining plays that are contingent u...

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Main Author: Akbar, Maisha S. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2020.
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Physical Description:ix, 137 pages ; 23 cm
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505 0 |a A blueswoman matters: black women's feminisms in anti-lynching plays -- Saving white face: examining anti-lynching plays set in white households -- Sketches from a black feminist professor's notebook: staging lynching plays at an historically black college and university (HBCU) in the South. 
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