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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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Chicago :
Ohio State University Press,
2019.
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| Serie: | Black performance and cultural criticism.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv2wbz0xf |
Sommario:
- Introduction: A body without a nation
- Mapping fugitivity in Black drama
- Fugitive acts
- Performing escape
- Fugitive intimacies
- Epilogue: Contemplating and complicating Black freedom.