Theatre History Studies 2010 [electronic resource] : African and African American Theatre Past and Present

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Studies, Theatre History.

Contributor:

Justice-Malloy, Rhona.

Series:

Theatre History Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American theater--History--19th century.

African American theater--History--20th century.

African Americans in the performing arts.

American drama--African American authors--History and criticism.

Local Subjects:

African American theater--History--19th century.

African American theater--History--20th century.

African Americans in the performing arts.

American drama--African American authors--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Alabama : University of Alabama Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

To mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Theatre History Studies journal, editor Rhona Justice-Malloy and the Mid-America Theatre Conference have collected a special-themed volume covering the past and present of African and African American theatre. Topics included range from modern theatrical trends and challenges in Zimbabwe and Kenya, and examining the history and long-range impact of Paul Robeson's groundbreaking and troubled life and career, to gender issues in the work of Ghanaian playwright Efo Kodjo Mawugbe, and the ways that 19th-century American blackness was

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Poor "Black" Theatre: Mid-America Theatre Conference Keynote Address, March 7, 2009; Hit-and-Run Theatre: The Rise of a New Dramatic Form in Zimbabwe; Abject No More: Authority and Authenticity in the Theatrical Career of Rose McClendon; How Does the Show Go On? Theatre for Development in Post-election Kenya; The Unreported Miracle of Paul Robeson and The Miracle; Mvett Performance: Retention, Reinvention, and Exaggeration in Remembering the Past; "You Hip to Buffalo?" The Hidden Heritage of Black Theatre in Western New York

Masculine Women, Feminist Men: Assertions and Contradictions in Mawugbe's In the Chest of a WomanUnderstanding Paul Robeson's Soviet Experience; Ota the Other: An African on Display in America; Oteller and Desdemonum: Defining Nineteenth-CenturyBlackness; "Looking at One's Self through the Eyes of Others": Representations of the Progressive Era Middle Class in W. E. B. Du Bois's The Star of Ethiopia; Knowing Their Place: The Ulster Lyric Theatre, the Lyric Theatre, and the Northern Irish Theatre Scene

Thinking about the Theatre-and Theatre Critics: An Interview with Robert Brustein, Conducted by Bert Cardullo, New York City, July 2008Book Reviews; Books Received; Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8173-8480-4

OCLC:

819637395