Experiments in democracy : interracial and cross-cultural exchange in American theatre, 1912-1945 / edited by Cheryl Black and Jonathan Shandell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Black, Cheryl, 1954- editor.

Shandell, Jonathan, editor.

Series:

Theater in the Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--United States--History--20th century.

Theater.

Theater and society--United States--History--20th century.

Theater and society.

Race in the theater.

Ethnicity in the theater.

American drama--20th century--History and criticism.

American drama.

Race relations in literature.

Minorities in literature.

United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Interracial and cross-cultural exchange in American theatre, 1912-1945

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2016]

Summary:

"Essays in "Experiments in Democracy" look at theatre groups, as well as individual playwrights and their works, to examine how theatre artists used performance to try to bridge America's persistent racial divide and sought strategies for bringing different communities and cultural traditions into the nation's broader cultural conversation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : Public laboratories of pluralism / Jonathan Shandell

Trying on The yellow jacket : performing Chinese exclusion and assimilation (1912-28) / Ju Yon Kim

Jazz, Jews, and modernism on Broadway : from Lady, be good! to Show boat (1924-27) / Stuart J. Hecht

Reconfiguring race and citizenship : the Teatro Vernáculo of La Unión Martí-Maceo (1930-40) / Eric Mayer-García

A cosmogony for the marginalized : Lynn Riggs, mythmaking, and multiracial-homosexual apologetics (1931-32) / W. Douglas Powers

Moving the world toward brotherhood : representations of cultural "otherness" in the Theatre Union's Black pit (1935) / Cheryl Black and Anne Fletcher

(Re)visioning Mexican intellectual and peasant life : Josefina Niggli's plays with the Carolina Playmakers (1936-38) / Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez

The politics of Black masculinity in Theodore Browne's Natural man (1937) / Harry J. Elam Jr.

Choreographing diversity and American experience : Myra Kinch and group, Federal Theatre Project (1937-39) / Margaret F. Savilonis

Imagined democracy : the Federal Theatre Project performs (native) America (1938-39) / Elizabeth A. Osborne

"Ethnic Americanism" versus isolationism : pluralistic antifascism in "Fun to be free" (1941) / Garrett Eisler

"Spain...brought me back to America" : ghostings of other races in Paul Robesons's Othello and José Ferrer's Iago (1943) / Lisa Jackson-Schebetta

Turning "negroes" into "people" onstage : Anna Lucasta in Harlem and on Broadway (1944) / Jonathan Shandell

The stage door canteen : the American Theatre wing's experiment in integration (1942-45) / Andrea Nouryeh

Afterword : American democracy : a work in progress / Cheryl Black.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

The Forrest Performing Arts Collection.

ISBN:

9780809334681

0809334682

OCLC:

908376299