| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 418 pages) |
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Praise/word / Paul Carter Harrison -- pt. 1. African roots. Roots in African drama and theatre / J.C. de Graft -- The African heritage of African American art and performance / Babatunde Lawal -- Agones : the constitution of a practice / Tejumola Olaniyan -- What the twilight says : an overture / Derek Walcott -- Caribbean narrative : carnival characters--in life and in the mind / Gus Edwards -- Rebaptizing the world in our own terms : Black theatre and live arts in Britain / Michael McMillan and SuAndi -- pt. 2. Mythology and metaphysics. The fourth stage : through the mysteries of Ogun to the origin of Yoruba tragedy / Wole Soyinka -- The Candomblʹe and Eshu-Eleggua in Brazilian and Cuban Yoruba-based ritual / Marta Moreno Vega -- Legba and the politics of metaphysics : the trickster in Black drama / Femi Euba -- Art for life's sake : rituals and rights of self and other in the theatre of Aimʹe Cʹesaire / Keith L. Walker -- Sycorax mythology / May Joseph -- Conjuring as radical re/membering in the works of Shay Youngblood / Joni L. Jones -- Archetype and masking in LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka's Dutchman / Victor Leo Walker II -- pt. 3. Dramaturgical practice. The dramaturg's way : meditations on the cartographer at the crossroads / Deborah Wood Holton -- Introduction to Moon marked and touched by sun / Sydnʹe Mahone -- Kennedy's travelers in the American and African continuum / Paul K. Bryant-Jackson -- Mojo and the sayso : a drama of Nommo that asks, "Is your mojo working?" / Andrea J. Nouryeh -- Ritual poetics and rites of passage in Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf / Jean Young -- pt. 4. Performance. Form and transformation : immanence of the soul in the performance modes of Black church and Black music / Paul Carter Harrison -- The sense of self in ritualizing new performance spaces for survival / Beverly J. Robinson -- Barbara Ann Teer : from holistic training to liberating rituals / Lundeana M. Thomas -- Bopera theory / Amiri Baraka -- From hip-hop to Hittite : part X / Keith Antar Mason -- Members and lames : language in the plays of August Wilson / William W. Cook -- Porque tu no m'entrende? Whatcha mean you can't understand me? / Ntozake Shange -- Performance method / George C. Wolfe -- Afterword : testimony of a witness / Eleanor W. Traylor |
| Summary |
An insider's view of Black theatres of the world and how they reflect their culture, concerns, and history |
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Generating a new understanding of the past--as well as a vision for the future--this path-breaking volume contains essays written by playwrights, scholars, and critics that analyze African American theatre as it is practiced today. Even as they acknowledge that Black experience is not monolithic, these contributors argue provocatively and persuasively for a Black consciousness that creates a culturally specific theatre. This theatre, rooted in an African mythos, offers ritual rather than realism; it transcends the specifics of social relations, reaching toward revelation. The ritual performance that is intrinsic to Black theatre renews the community; in Paul Carter Harrison's words, it "reveals the Form of Things Unknown" in a way that "binds, cleanses, and heals." |
| Analysis |
"Multi-User" |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Black people in the performing arts
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Black theater.
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Drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Black people in literature
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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Black theater
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Black people in literature
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Black people in the performing arts
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Drama
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Harrison, Paul Carter, 1936-2021, editor
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Walker, Victor Leo, II, editor.
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Edwards, Gus, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781439901151 |
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1439901155 |
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1282047221 |
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9781282047228 |
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