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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCormick, Stacie Selmon
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Ohio State University Press 2019.
Series:Black performance and cultural criticism.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv2wbz0xf
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A body without a nation
  • Mapping fugitivity in Black drama
  • Fugitive acts
  • Performing escape
  • Fugitive intimacies
  • Epilogue: Contemplating and complicating Black freedom.