Staging Black Fugitivity

"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, a...

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Bibliografische gegevens
Hoofdauteur: McCormick, Stacie Selmon
Formaat: Licensed eBooks
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Chicago : Ohio State University Press, 2019.
Reeks:Black performance and cultural criticism.
Online toegang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv2wbz0xf
Inhoudsopgave:
  • Introduction: A body without a nation
  • Mapping fugitivity in Black drama
  • Fugitive acts
  • Performing escape
  • Fugitive intimacies
  • Epilogue: Contemplating and complicating Black freedom.