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Author : Charles Gordone
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0573613087
Author : Carol Bunch Davis
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781496802996
Prefiguring Postblackness explores the tensions between cultural memory of the African American freedom struggle and representations of African American identity staged in five plays between 1959 and 1969 during the civil rights era. Through close readings of the plays, their popular and African American print media reviews, and the cultural context in which they were produced, Carol Bunch Davis shows how these representations complicate narrow ideas of blackness, which often limit the freedom struggle era to Martin Luther King's nonviolent protest and cast Malcolm X's black nationalism as undermining the civil rights movement's advances. These five plays strategically revise the rhetoric, representations, ideologies, and iconography of the African American freedom struggle, subverting its dominant narrative. This revision critiques racial uplift ideology's tenets of civic and moral virtue as a condition of African American full citizenship. The dramas also reimagine the Black Arts movement's restrictive notions of black authenticity as a condition of racial identity, and their staged representations construct a counter-narrative to cultural memory of the freedom struggle during that very era. In their use of a "postblack ethos" to enact African American subjectivity, the plays envision black identity beyond the quest for freedom, anticipating what blackness might look like when it moves beyond the struggle. The plays under discussion range from the canonical (Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun and Amiri Baraka's Dutchman) to celebrated, yet understudied works (Alice Childress's Wine in the Wilderness, Howard Sackler's The Great White Hope, and Charles Gordone's No Place to Be Somebody). Finally, Davis discusses recent revivals, showing how these 1960s plays shape dimensions of modern drama well beyond the decade of their creation.
Author : Heinz-Dietrich Fischer
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9783643903419
Many Pulitzer Prize-winners in the theater award category started their international careers right from Broadway. Among the laureates were dramatists such as Eugene O'Neill who earned four awards. Double prize-winner Tennessee Williams was praised for A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Thornton Wilder's plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth were successful, as well as Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Edward Albee's Three Tall Women or Alfred Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy represent the younger generation of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights. This book takes a look at many of the Pulitzer Prize-winning productions that have been presented over the years on Broadway. (Series: Pulitzer Prize Panorama - Vol. 6)
Author : Heinz-Dietrich Fischer
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643916297
This volume tells the fascinating history of a century of Broadway Theatre, exemplified by Pulitzer Prize-winning stage productions of plays from leading American playwrights like Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller and many others. In addition, facsimile reproductions of theatre programs and posters give an impression of the casts on stage including movie stars like Deborah Kerr, Jessica Tandy, Anthony Perkins, Marlon Brando, Karl Malden or Morgan Freeman.
Author : Verner D. Mitchell,Cynthia Davis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781538101469
This reference identifies key contributors to the Black Arts Movement, the name given to a group of poets, artists, dramatists, musicians, and writers who emerged in the wake of the Black Power Movement. This book also discusses major works produced during the period, as well as significant publications, influential groups, and organizations.
Author : Emmanuel S. Nelson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313052897
Despite their significant contributions to the American theater, African American dramatists have received less critical attention than novelists and poets. This reference offers thorough critical assessments of the lives and works of African American playwrights from the 19th century to the present. The book alphabetically arranges entries on more than 60 dramatists, including James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Ossie Davis, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a summary of the playwright's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography. African American dramatists have made enormous contributions to the theater and their works are included in numerous editions and anthologies. Some of the most popular plays of the 20th century have been written by African Americans, and high school students and undergraduates study their works. But for all their popularity and influence, African American playwrights have received less critical attention than poets and novelists. This reference offers thorough critical assessments of more than 60 African American dramatists from the 19th century to the present.
Author : John A. Garraty,Mark C. Carnes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199771493
American National Biography is the first new comprehensive biographical dicionary focused on American history to be published in seventy years. Produced under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies, the ANB contains over 17,500 profiles on historical figures written by an expert in the field and completed with a bibliography. The scope of the work is enormous--from the earlest recorded European explorations to the very recent past.
Author : Kenneth Turan,Joseph Papp
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780767931694
Free for All is an irresistible behind-the-scenes look at one of America’s most beloved and important cultural institutions. Under the inspired leadership of founder Joseph Papp, the Public Theater and the New York Shakespeare Festival brought revolutionary performances to the public for decades. This compulsively readable history of those years—much of it told in Papp’s own words—is fascinating, ranging from a dramatic early showdown with Robert Moses over keeping Shakespeare in the Park free to the launching of such landmark productions as Hair and A Chorus Line. To bring the story to life, film critic Kenneth Turan interviewed some 160 luminaries—including George C. Scott, Meryl Streep, Mike Nichols, Kevin Kline, James Earl Jones, David Rabe, Jerry Stiller, Tommy Lee Jones, and Wallace Shawn—and masterfully weaves their voices into a dizzyingly rich tale of creativity, conflict, and achievement.
Author : Wilfred D. Samuels
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 1999 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : African American authors
ISBN : 9781438140599
Presents a reference on African American literature providing profiles of notable and little-known writers and their works, literary forms and genres, critics and scholars, themes and terminology and more.
Author : Charles Gordone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : American drama
ISBN : OCLC:183271546
Author : Hans Ostrom,J. David Macey Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440875366
This book introduces students to African-American innovators and their contributions to art, entertainment, sports, politics, religion, business, and popular culture. While the achievements of such individuals as Barack Obama, Toni Morrison, and Thurgood Marshall are well known, many accomplished African Americans have been largely forgotten or deliberately erased from the historical record in America. This volume introduces students to those African Americans whose successes in entertainment, business, sports, politics, and other fields remain poorly understood. Dr. Charles Drew, whose pioneering research on blood transfusions saved thousands of lives during World War II; Mae Jemison, an engineer who in 1992 became the first African American woman to travel in outer space; and Ethel Waters, the first African American to star in her own television show, are among those chronicled in Forgotten African American Firsts. With nearly 150 entries across 17 categories, this book has been carefully curated to showcase the inspiring stories of African Americans whose hard work, courage, and talent have led the course of history in the United States and around the world.
Author : Anthony D. Hill,Douglas Q. Barnett
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0810870614
African American Theater is a vibrant and unique entity enriched by ancient Egyptian rituals, West African folklore, and European theatrical practices. A continuum of African folk traditions, it combines storytelling, mythology, rituals, music, song, and dance with ancestor worship from ancient times to the present. It afforded black artists a cultural gold mine to celebrate what it was like to be an African American in The New World. The A to Z of African American Theater celebrates nearly 200 years of black theater in the United States, identifying representative African American theater-producing organizations and chronicling their contributions to the field from its birth in 1816 to the present. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on actors, directors, playwrights, plays, theater producing organizations, themes, locations, and theater movements and awards.
Author : Heinz-D. Fischer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110955781
The School of Journalism at Columbia University has awarded the Pulitzer Prize since 1917. Nowadays there are prizes in 21 categories from the fields of journalism, literature and music. The Pulitzer Prize Archive presentsthe history of this award from its beginnings to the present: In parts A toE the awarding oftheprize in each category is documented, commented and arranged chronologically. Part F covers the history of the prize biographically and bibliographically. Part G provides the background to thedecisions.
Author : Jackson R. Bryer,Mary C. Hartig
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438129662
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.
Author : Carlton W. Molette and Barbara J. Mole
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : African American theater
ISBN : 9781483637396
Afrocentric Theatre updates the Molettes' groundbreaking book, Black Theatre: Premise and Presentation, that has been required reading in many Black theatre courses for over twenty-fi ve years. Afrocentric theatre is a culturally-based art form, not a race-based one. Culture and values shape perceptions of such phenomena as time, space, heroism, reality, truth, and beauty. These culturally variable social constructions determine standards for evaluating and analyzing art and govern the way people perceive theatrical presentations as well as fi lm and video drama. A play is not Afrocentric simply because it is by a Black playwright, or has Black characters, or addresses a Black theme or issue. Afrocentric Theatre describes the nature of an art form that embraces and disseminates African American culture and values. Further, it suggests a framework for interpreting andevaluating that art form and assesses the endeavors of dramatists who work from an Afrocentric perspective.