Complicit participation : the liberal audience for theater of racial justice / Carrie J. Preston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Preston, Carrie J., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race in the theater.

Theater audiences.

Racism--United States.

Racism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

In this incisive critique of the ways performances of allyship can further entrench white privilege, author Carrie J. Preston analyses her own complicit participation and that of other audience members and theatre professionals.

Contents:

Part I The Troubling Pleasures of Complicit Participation

Introduction

I.1. Defining Immersion, Realism, and Theater of Racial Justice

I.2. The Complicit Anecdote and Other Notes of Method

I.3. The Complicit Audience

I.4. Preview of the Book

I.5. Terms of Participation

1 Blackfaced at The Blacks: Complicit Participation in Jean Genet's Lessons On Race

1.1. Anecdote

1.2. Genet On the Wounding of White Audiences

1.3. Audience Responses

1.4. Pleasure and Escalation

Part II The Melodramatics of American Racism: Boucicault's and Jacobs-Jenkins's Octoroons

II.1 Introduction to Part II

2 Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon and the Loudly Immersed Audiences of Nineteenth-Century Melodramas

2.1. Hissing, Cheering, Sympathizing

2.2. Listening In and Aside

2.3. Applauding and Photographing Poses

3 Hissing, Bidding, and Lynching at Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's An Octoroon

3.1. The Prologue to a Boucicault Adaptation

3.2. Poses and Projections in An Octoroon

3.3. Bidding On An Octoroon

3.4. The Women of An Octoroon

3.5. The Matter of Black Lives: "Shall We Have One Law for the Red-Skin and Another for the White?"

3.6. Conclusion

Part III Dueling On Broadway

III.I. Introduction to Part III

4 Shuffle Along . . . the Campaign Trail

4.1. Blackface Minstrelsy and the Making of American Audiences

4.2. Shuffle Along (1921) and the Long Burn of Minstrelsy

4.3. Dancing "So Full of Jazz, Jazz, Jazz" With the Dance Instruction Song

4.4. Shuffling Toward the White House in 1921 and 2016

5 Hamilton ParticiNation in Diversity and Its Discontents

Coda: The History of Act II

7 Playing The White Card With Claudia Rankine

7.1. Tableaux of Black Suffering

7.2. "People" . . . People Like Me?

7.3. Staying for Act II and the White Card On Your Seat

7.4. Conclusion

Coda

Notes

Chapter 1

Part II

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Part III

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Part IV

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Coda.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 11, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

0-19-769343-1

0-19-769341-5

OCLC:

1425893777