Experiments in Democracy [electronic resource] : Interracial and Cross-Cultural Exchange in American Theatre, 1912-1945 / edited by Cheryl Black and Jonathan Shandell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shandell, Jonathan, editor.

Black, Cheryl, 1954- editor.

Series:

Theater in the Americas.

Theater in the Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities in literature.

Race relations in literature.

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

American drama.

Ethnicity in the theater.

Race in the theater.

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

Theater and society.

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

Theater.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

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:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Public Laboratories of Pluralism

1. Trying on The Yellow Jacket: Performing Chinese Exclusion and Assimilation (1912-28)

2. Jazz, Jews, and Modernism on Broadway: From Lady, Be Good! to Show Boat (1924-27)

3. Reconfiguring Race and Citizenship: The Teatro Vernáculo of La Unión Martí-Maceo (1930-40)

4. A Cosmogony for the Marginalized: Lynn Riggs, Mythmaking, and Multiracial-Homosexual Apologetics (1931-32)

5. Moving the World toward Brotherhood: Representations of Cultural "Otherness" in the Theatre Union's Black Pit (1935)

6. (Re)Visioning Mexican Intellectual and Peasant Life: Josefina Niggli's Plays with the Carolina Playmakers (1936-38)

7. The Politics of Black Masculinity in Theodore Browne's Natural Man (1937)

8. Choreographing Diversity and American Experience: Myra Kinch and Group, Federal Theatre Project (1937-39)

9. Imagined Democracy: The Federal Theatre Project Performs (Native) America (1938-39)

10. "Ethnic Americanism" versus Isolationism: Pluralistic Antifascism in "Fun to Be Free" (1941)

11. "Spain . . . Brought Me Back to America": Ghostings of Other Races in Paul Robeson's Othello and José Ferrer's Iago (1943)

12. Turning "Negroes" into "People" Onstage: Anna Lucasta in Harlem and on Broadway (1944)

13. The Stage Door Canteen: The American Theatre Wing's Experiment in Integration (1942-45)

Afterword: American Democracy-a Work in Progress

Contributors

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8093-3469-0

OCLC:

951551778