The Theater of Black Americans : a collection of critical essays / edited by Errol Hill.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hill, Errol.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Twentieth century views

A Spectrum book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American theater--History.

African American theater.

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

American drama.

American drama--African American authors.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans.

African Americans in literature.

History.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy volumes 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, Inc., [1980]

Contents:

v. 1. Introduction / by Errol Hill

I. Roots and rituals : the search for identity. Some African influences on the Afro-American theatre / James Hatch ; Notes on ritual in the new black theater / Shelby Steele ; Two Afro-American contributions to dramatic form / Eleanor W. Traylor ; The aesthetic of modern black drama : from mimesis to methexis / Kimberly W. Benston ; America's debt to the language of black Americans / Jim Haskins and Hugh F. Butts, M.D. ; An origin for the negro spiritual / Eileen Southern ; An aesthetic of the cool: West African dance / Robert Farris Thompson

II. The image makers : plays and playwrights. Willis Richardson : pioneer playwright / Bernard L. Peterson, Jr. ; Shuffle along : keynote of the Harlem renaissance / Helen Armstead Johnson ; Langston Hughes as playwright / Darwin T. Turner ; Three black playwrights : Loften Mitchell, Ossie Davis, Douglas Turner Ward / C.W.E. Bigsby ; Mom, dad, and God : values in black theater / William Cook ; Structural elements in Ed Bullins' plays / Samuel A. Hay ; The delicate world of reprobation : a note on the black revolutionary theater / Michael W. Kaufman

Chronology of important events.

v. 2. Introduction / by Errol Hill

I. The presenters : companies of players. The Lafayette Players, 1917-1932 / Sister M. Francesca Thompson, O.S.F. ; The role of blacks in the Federal Theatre, 1935-1939 / Ronald Ross ; The American Negro Theatre / Ethel Pitts Walker ; Black theater in the South : report and reflections / Tom Dent ; The Negro Ensemble Company: a transcendent vision / Ellen Foreman ; The National Black Theatre : The Sun People of 125th Street / Jessica B. Harris

II. The participators : audiences and critics. Into nationalism, out of parochialism / Larry Neal ; It's a long way to St. Louis : notes on the audience for black drama / Adam David Miller ; The Black theatre audience / Thomas D. Pawley ; Critics, standards and black theatre / Margaret B. Wilkerson ; Black critics on black theatre in America / Abiodun Jeyifous ; Two views by white critics : (1) Must I side with blacks or whites? / Eric Bentley ; (2) Enroute to the future / Stanley Kauffmann ; Black theater : the search goes on / Lindsay Patterson

Notes:

"Cover design by Stanley Wyatt."

Includes bibliographical references (volume 1, pages 217-221; volume 2, pages 159-163).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy volumes 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Other Format:

Online version: Theater of Black Americans.

ISBN:

013912733X

9780139127335

0139127259

9780139127250

0139127178

9780139127175

0139127097

9780139127090

OCLC:

5171416