Drumbeats Masks And Metaphor

Author : Fabre
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674216784

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Drumbeats, Masks, and Metaphor by Fabre Pdf

Dixon's translation of Fabre's Le Theatre Noir Aux Etats-Unis assesses contemporary black theatre since 1945. Placing it in historical and cultural context as a platform for political statement, Fabre isolates two emerging strains: the militant theater of protest and the ethnic theater of black experience. She provides examples and analyzes obscure as well as well-known plays by militant writers such as Amiri Baraka, Douglas Turner Ward, Ted Shine, Ben Caldwell and Sonia Sanchez, who examine relations between blacks and whites and tell stories of victims, rebels and traitors and of rituals of vengeance. She also examines the theater of black experience embracing the rituals of daily life, the liturgy of the black church, traditional music and folklore, and the works of James Baldwin, Melvin Van Peeples, Ed Bullins and Edgar White, and predicts the future of black theater in the United States. ISBN 0-674-21678-4 : $20.00.

Author : Geneviève Fabre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:940985082

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DRUMBEATS, MASKS, AND METAPHOR by Geneviève Fabre Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:940985082

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DRUMBEATS, MASKS, AND METAPHOR by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027279682

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Metaphor by Anonim Pdf

The aim of the present bibliography is to provide the student of metaphor with an up-to-date and comprehensive (albeit not exhaustive) overview of recent publications dealing with various aspects of metaphor in a variety of disciplines. Where the emphasis is primarily on specific works “about” metaphor, mainly in philosophy, linguistics, and psychology, the list has been supplemented with references to studies where metaphor is explicitly recognized as an instrument of research or analysis (e.g., in literature, or in the elaboration of scientific and religious models) or where its use is illustrated.

Author : Tejumola Olaniyan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195357509

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Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance by Tejumola Olaniyan Pdf

This original work redefines and broadens our understanding of the drama of the English-speaking African diaspora. Looking closely at the work of Amiri Baraka, Nobel prize-winners Wole Soyinka and Derek Walcott, and Ntozake Shange, the author contends that the refashioning of the collective cultural self in black drama originates from the complex intersection of three discourses: Eurocentric, Afrocentric, and Post-Afrocentric. From blackface minstrelsy to the Trinidad Carnival, from the Black Aesthetic to the South African Black Consciousness theatres and the scholarly debate on the (non)existence of African drama, Olaniyan cogently maps the terrains of a cultural struggle and underscores a peculiar situation in which the inferiorization of black performance forms is most often a shorthand for subordinating black culture and corporeality. Drawing on insights from contemporary theory and cultural studies, and offering detailed readings of the above writers, Olaniyan shows how they occupy the interface between the Afrocentric and a liberating Post-Afrocentric space where black theatrical-cultural difference could be envisioned as a site of multiple articulations: race, class, gender, genre, and language.

Author : Kimberley W. Benston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135078249

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Performing Blackness by Kimberley W. Benston Pdf

Performing Blackness offers a challenging interpretation of black cultural expression since the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Exploring drama, music, poetry, sermons, and criticism, Benston offers an exciting meditation on modern black performance's role in realising African-American aspirations for autonomy and authority. Artists covered include: * John Coltrane * Ntozake Shange * Ed Bullins * Amiri Baraka * Adrienne Kennedy * Michael Harper. Performing Blackness is an exciting contribution to the ongoing debate about the vitality and importance of black culture.

Author : Jerry Watts
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814795132

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Amiri Baraka by Jerry Watts Pdf

Amiri Baraka, formerly known as LeRoi Jones, became known as one of the most militant, anti-white black nationalists of the 1960s Black Power movement. An advocate of Black Cultural Nationalism, Baraka supported the rejection of all things white and western. He helped found and direct the influential Black Arts movement which sought to move black writers away from western aesthetic sensibilities and toward a more complete embrace of the black world. Except perhaps for James Baldwin, no single figure has had more of an impact on black intellectual and artistic life during the last forty years. In this groundbreaking and comprehensive study, the first to interweave Baraka's art and political activities, Jerry Watts takes us from his early immersion in the New York scene through the most dynamic period in the life and work of this controversial figure. Watts situates Baraka within the various worlds through which he travelled including Beat Bohemia, Marxist-Leninism, and Black Nationalism. In the process, he convincingly demonstrates how the 25 years between Baraka's emergence in 1960 and his continued influence in the mid-1980s can also be read as a general commentary on the condition of black intellectuals during the same time. Continually using Baraka as the focal point for a broader analysis, Watts illustrates the link between Baraka's life and the lives of other black writers trying to realize their artistic ambitions, and contrasts him with other key political intellectuals of the time. In a chapter sure to prove controversial, Watts links Baraka's famous misogyny to an attempt to bury his own homosexual past. A work of extraordinary breadth, Amira Baraka is a powerful portrait of one man's lifework and the pivotal time it represents in African-American history. Informed by a wealth of original research, it fills a crucial gap in the lively literature on black thought and history and will continue to be a touchstone work for some time to come.

Author : Jack Salzman,American Studies Association
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1986-08-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521266882

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American Studies by Jack Salzman,American Studies Association Pdf

This is an annotated bibliography of 20th century books through 1983, and is a reworking of American Studies: An Annotated Bibliography of Works on the Civilization of the United States, published in 1982. Seeking to provide foreign nationals with a comprehensive and authoritative list of sources of information concerning America, it focuses on books that have an important cultural framework, and does not include those which are primarily theoretical or methodological. It is organized in 11 sections: anthropology and folklore; art and architecture; history; literature; music; political science; popular culture; psychology; religion; science/technology/medicine; and sociology. Each section contains a preface introducing the reader to basic bibliographic resources in that discipline and paragraph-length, non-evaluative annotations. Includes author, title, and subject indexes. ISBN 0-521-32555-2 (set) : $150.00.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780791076798

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The Harlem Renaissance by Harold Bloom Pdf

Harlem in the 1920s and '30s was the epicenter of a flourishing in African-American literature with the poetry and prose of Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Claude McKay, to name a few. This volume examines the defining themes and styles of African-American literature during this period, which laid the groundwork for contemporary African-American writers.

Author : Mary F Brewer
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781837642465

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Race, Sex, and Gender in Contemporary Women's Theatre by Mary F Brewer Pdf

Focusing on dramatic works by contemporary British and American playwrights, in conjunction with feminist political and theoretical texts, this book discusses feminist constructions of the category "Woman".

Author : Paul Carter Harrison,Victor Leo Walker Ii,Gus Edwards
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781566399449

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Black Theatre by Paul Carter Harrison,Victor Leo Walker Ii,Gus Edwards Pdf

Generating a new understanding of the past—as well as a vision for the future—this path-breaking volume contains essays written by playwrights, scholars, and critics that analyze African American theatre as it is practiced today.Even as they acknowledge that Black experience is not monolithic, these contributors argue provocatively and persuasively for a Black consciousness that creates a culturally specific theatre. This theatre, rooted in an African mythos, offers ritual rather than realism; it transcends the specifics of social relations, reaching toward revelation. The ritual performance that is intrinsic to Black theatre renews the community; in Paul Carter Harrison's words, it "reveals the Form of Things Unknown" in a way that "binds, cleanses, and heals."

Author : Carol P. Marsh-Lockett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317944942

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Black Women Playwrights by Carol P. Marsh-Lockett Pdf

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Lundeana Marie Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317776963

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Barbara Ann Teer and the National Black Theatre by Lundeana Marie Thomas Pdf

While chronicling the development of Teer's National Black Theatre of Harlem, this study explores the National Black Theatre's quest to develop a new black theory of acting. Teer's theory of performance was realized in a theater that combined elements of Pentacostal worship and African ritual, melding spontaneity from the performers, percussive music, singing, dancing, emotional expression from both actors and audience, and spectacle. The National Black Theatre's major achievement is the creation of an original art form that helps African Americans identify with their roots and invites spontaneous audience interaction. The study offers the National Black Theatre as a model African American community theater with valuable lessons for other theaters. The innovative methods of the National Black Theatre provide a model for enlightening and sensitizing audiences to cultural diversity. A pioneering institution, the National Black Theatre has proven itself over its 25 year history to be a cultural treasure and the quintessential theater in Harlem. Also includes maps.(Bibliography, and index; foreword by Dr. Winona Fletcher, Professor Emeritus of Theater and Drama and Afro-American Studies; Founder of the National Black Theatre)

Author : Marvin McAllister
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807869062

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Whiting Up by Marvin McAllister Pdf

In the early 1890s, black performer Bob Cole turned blackface minstrelsy on its head with his nationally recognized whiteface creation, a character he called Willie Wayside. Just over a century later, hiphop star Busta Rhymes performed a whiteface supercop in his hit music video "Dangerous." In this sweeping work, Marvin McAllister explores the enduring tradition of "whiting up," in which African American actors, comics, musicians, and even everyday people have studied and assumed white racial identities. Not to be confused with racial "passing" or derogatory notions of "acting white," whiting up is a deliberate performance strategy designed to challenge America's racial and political hierarchies by transferring supposed markers of whiteness to black bodies--creating unexpected intercultural alliances even as it sharply critiques racial stereotypes. Along with conventional theater, McAllister considers a variety of other live performance modes, including weekly promenading rituals, antebellum cakewalks, solo performance, and standup comedy. For over three centuries, whiting up as allowed African American artists to appropriate white cultural production, fashion new black identities through these "white" forms, and advance our collective ability to locate ourselves in others.

Author : Jeffrey H. Richards,Heather S. Nathans
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199731497

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The Oxford Handbook of American Drama by Jeffrey H. Richards,Heather S. Nathans Pdf

This volume explores the history of American drama from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It describes origins of early republican drama and its evolution during the pre-war and post-war periods. It traces the emergence of different types of American drama including protest plays, reform drama, political drama, experimental drama, urban plays, feminist drama and realist plays. This volume also analyzes the works of some of the most notable American playwrights including Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller and those written by women dramatists.