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The healing stage : Black women, incarceration, and the art of transformation / Lisa Biggs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Biggs, Lisa (Actor and playwright), author.
- Series:
- Black performance and cultural criticism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prison theater.
- Women prisoners.
- African American prisoners.
- Women in the performing arts.
- Performing arts--Social aspects.
- Performing arts.
- Theater and society.
- Physical Description:
- x, 245 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "Focusing on sites in the US and South Africa, Biggs follows four ensembles of currently and formerly incarcerated women and the teaching artists with whom they collaborate to investigate how performance-based arts projects both in prison and out can effect positive personal, social, and political change"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 "She Was No Rosa Parks": A Black Women's History of Mass Incarceration in the United States
- ch. 2 How to Stage Healing
- ch. 3 Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Bad Woman: Making Theater in a Midwestern Jail
- ch. 4 The Pink Dress
- ch. 5 Bring Me My Machine Gun: The Medea Project in South Africa
- ch. 6 It Has Been My Healing to Tell the Dirty Truth.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814214930
- 0814214932
- 0814258565
- 9780814258569
- OCLC:
- 1314264168
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