Black Theatre: Ritual Performance in the African Diaspora - Couverture souple

Harrison, Paul Carter

 
9781566399449: Black Theatre: Ritual Performance in the African Diaspora
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1566399440 ISBN 13 : 9781566399449
Editeur : Temple University Press,U.S., 2002

Synopsis

This 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 for a Black consciousness that creates a culturally specific theatre. This theatre, rooted in 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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Paul Carter Harrison is playwright in residence at the Theatre Center, Columbia College, Chicago. He is the author of several books including, The Drama of Nommo and the editor of several play anthologies. His play, The Great MacDaddy, received an Obie Award for playwriting.Victor Leo Walker is Chief Executive Officer of the African Grove Institute for the Arts, Inc. and the author of The Cultural MatriX: Los Angeles Inner City Cultural Center, 1965 to 1998 (forthcoming).Gus Edwards teaches Film Studies and directs a multi-ethnic theatre program at Arizona State University. He has published two volumes of monologues from his plays including The Offering, Black Body Blues, and Louie & Ophelia. He is coeditor with Paul Carter Harrison of the anthology, Classic Plays from the Negro Ensemble Company.Contributors: J.C. de Graft, Babatunde Lawal, Tejumola Olanian, Derek Walcott, SuAndi and Michael McMillan, Wole Soyinka, Marta Vega, Femi Euba, Keith Walker, May Joseph, Joni Jones, Debra Holton, Sydne Mahone, Paul K. Bryant-Jackson, Andrea J. Nouryeh, Jean Young, Beverly Robinson, Lundeana Thomas, Amiri Baraka, Keith Antar Mason, William Cook, Ntozake Shange, George E. Wolfe, Eleanor Traylor, and the editors.

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Éditeur
Temple University Press,U.S.
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1566399440
ISBN 13 
9781566399449
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
464
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1566399432 ISBN 13 :  9781566399432
Editeur : Temple University Press,U.S., 2002
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