The Roots Of African American Drama
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The Roots Of African American Drama
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Author : James V. Hatch
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 1992-04-01
The Roots Of African American Drama written by James V. Hatch and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-04-01 with Social Science categories.
This volume rescues from obscurity thirteen plays by early African American writers.
A History Of African American Theatre
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Author : Errol G. Hill
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-07-17
A History Of African American Theatre written by Errol G. Hill and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-17 with Drama categories.
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Contemporary African American Theater
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Author : Nilgun Anadolu-Okur
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-01-11
Contemporary African American Theater written by Nilgun Anadolu-Okur and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-11 with History categories.
The Black Arts Movement was sparked by the Civil Rights movement and the urge to produce and revitalize functional, realistic, and holistic symbols to express African American creativity. When Larry Neal began his quest for a new dramatic form to epitomize African American self-determination he laid the foundation upon which his friends and compatriots-Amiri Baraka and Charles Fuller-would build. Expressing their individual protests through their writings, these artists soon united in their attack against Eurocentrism, which traditionally minimized or neglected the roles played by Africans and African Americans on the world stage. Their writings signaled a radical change in the form and content of African American writing, particularly drama. In this insightful examination of African American cultural history, the author explores the heart of the dramatic imagination of African Americans during the turbulent years of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. The analysis of the works of these three important dramatists reveals the roots of an Afrocentric approach to the theater, and introduces a new methodology for exploring Afrocentrism that is particularly suited to classes in African American drama and literature.ࠁ
Reading Contemporary African American Drama
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Author : Trudier Harris
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2007
Reading Contemporary African American Drama written by Trudier Harris and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Art categories.
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African American Performance And Theater History
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Author : Harry Justin Elam
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2001
African American Performance And Theater History written by Harry Justin Elam and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Literary Criticism categories.
An anthology of critical writings that explores the intersections of race, theater, and performance in America.
The Chip Woman S Fortune
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Author : Willis Richardson
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2019-02-03
The Chip Woman S Fortune written by Willis Richardson and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-03 with categories.
In 1922, Willis Richardson wrote The Chip Woman's Fortune. On January 29, 1923, the play was performed by the Ethiopian Art Players in Chicago. In April 1923, the play moved to New York. On May 7, 1923, The Chip Woman's Fortune had a short run at the Lafayette Theatre in Harlem. Eight days later, it became the first play by an African American to reach Broadway. The chip woman, in The Chip Woman's Fortune, is named Aunt Nancy. She contributes to the household where she resides by picking up chips of wood and lumps of coal from the streets. We find her living with Silas and caring for his ill wife, Liza, whom we learn is making a steady recovery under Aunt Nancy's care. Silas learns that the family's greatest treasure, a Victrola record player, is about to be repossessed because of financial strain that has left him unable to make payments on the outstanding debt owed on the machine. After learning that, Aunt Nancy has managed to save some money from street donations she receives, Silas decides that it is time for her to contribute more than the nursing care provided to his wife, and the wood chips and coal lumps she collects for use by the family.
Willis Richardson Forgotten Pioneer Of African American Drama
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Author : Christine R. Gray
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 1999-12-30
Willis Richardson Forgotten Pioneer Of African American Drama written by Christine R. Gray and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-12-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
During the 1920s and 1930s, Willis Richardson (1889-1977) was highly respected as a leading African-American playwright and drama anthologist. His plays were performed by numerous black high school, college, and university drama groups and by theater companies in Chicago, New York, Washington D.C., Cleveland, Baltimore, and Atlanta. With the opening of The Chip Woman's Fortune (1923), he became the first African American to have a play produced on Broadway. Several of his 46 plays were published in assorted magazines, and in his essays, he urged black Americans to seek their dramatic material in their own lives and circumstances. In addition, he edited three anthologies of plays by African-Americans. But between 1940 and his death in 1977, Richardson came to realize that his plays were period pieces and that they no longer reflected the problems and situations of African-Americans. In the years before his death, he attempted vigorously yet unsuccessfully to preserve several of his plays through publication, if not production. But the man who has been called the father of African-American drama and who was considered the hope and promise of African-American drama died in obscurity. Richardson has even been neglected by the scholarly community. This critical biography, the first extensive consideration of his life and work, firmly reestablishes his pioneering role in American theater. The book begins with a detailed chronology, followed by a thoughtful biographical essay. The volume then examines the nature of African-American drama in the 1920s, the period during which Richardson was most productive, and it analyzes his approach to drama as a means of educating African-American audiences. It then explores the African-American community as the central theme in Richardson's plays, for Richardson typically looks at the consequences of refusals by blacks to help one another. The work additionally considers Richardson's history plays, his anthologies, his dramas intended for black children, and his essays. A concluding chapter summarizes his lasting influence; the book closes with a listing of his plays and an extensive bibliography.
African American Theatre
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Author : Samuel A. Hay
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1994-03-25
African American Theatre written by Samuel A. Hay and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-03-25 with Drama categories.
This book traces the history of African American theatre from its beginnings to the present.
Mnemopoetics
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Author : Valérie Bada
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2008
Mnemopoetics written by Valérie Bada and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Drama categories.
From its very beginning, African American drama has borne witness to the creative power of the slaves to maintain their human dignity as well as to fashion a complex culture of survival. If the memory of slavery has always been at the heart of the African American theatrical tradition, it is the way in which it is processed and inscribed that has developed and is still changing. Through the close reading and socio-historical analysis of eight plays from 1939 to 1996, the author seeks to unravel the fluctuating patterns in the shaping of the theatrical memory of slavery long after its abolition. To do so, she defines the concept and practice of mnemopoetics as the making of memory through imagination as well as the critical approaches that decipher and interpret cultural productions of memory. As a constellation of processes akin to the fluidity of memory, mnemopoetics blends creative representation and critical exploration to suggest that the cultural creation of memory necessarily entails a self-reflexive involvement with its own interpretation. If slavery embodies the deep, foundational memory of America, African American drama represents the open, communal space where it becomes possible to convert the irretrievable nature of a vicarious past into the redeeming function of a collective memory.
The Facts On File Companion To American Drama
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Author : Jackson R. Bryer
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2010
The Facts On File Companion To American Drama written by Jackson R. Bryer and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Features a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers.