Staging Black Fugitivity

Author : Stacie Selmon McCormick
Publisher : Black Performance and Cultural
ISBN 13 : 9780814255445
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staging Black Fugitivity written by Stacie Selmon McCormick and published by Black Performance and Cultural. This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that contemporary black dramas use the slave past to complicate views of the history of slavery, of the realities of racial progress, and of black subjectivity.

Author : Omi Osun Joni L. Jones
Publisher : Black Performance and Cultural
ISBN 13 : 9780814252079
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatrical Jazz written by Omi Osun Joni L. Jones and published by Black Performance and Cultural. This book was released on 2023-01-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study of the theatrical jazz aesthetic, that draws on the jazz principles of ensemble--the break, the bridge, and the blue note.

Author : Paula von Gleich
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110761033
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Border and Fugitive Narration in Black American Literature written by Paula von Gleich and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tests the limits of fugitivity as a concept in recent Black feminist and Afro-pessimist thought. It follows the conceptual travels of confinement and flight through three major Black writing traditions in North America from the 1840s to the early 21st century. Cultural analysis is the basic methodological approach and recent concepts of captivity and fugitivity in Afro-pessimist and Black feminist theory form the theoretical framework.

Author : Douglas A. Jones
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472052268
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Captive Stage written by Douglas A. Jones and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2014-07-09 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing exploration of Northern proslavery sentiment during the period before the Civil War

Author : Adam Alston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135023706X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staging Decadence written by Adam Alston and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is decadence being staged today – as a practice, issue, pejorative, and as a site of pleasure? Where might we find it, why might we look for it, and who is decadence for? This book is the first monographic study of decadence in theatre and performance. Adam Alston makes a passionate case for the contemporary relevance of decadence in the thick of a resurgent culture war by focusing on its antithetical relationship to capitalist-led growth, progress, and intensified productivity. He argues that the qualities used to disparage the study and practice of theatre and performance are the very things we should embrace in celebrating their value – namely, their spectacular uselessness, wastefulness, outmodedness, and abundant potential for producing forms of creativity that flow away from the ends and excesses of capitalism. Alston covers an eclectic range of examples by Julia Bardsley (UK), Hasard Le Sin (Finland), jaamil olawale kosoko (USA), Toco Nikaido (Japan), Martin O'Brien (UK), Toshiki Okada (Japan), Marcel·lí Antúnez Roca (Spain), Normandy Sherwood (USA), The Uhuruverse (USA), Nia O. Witherspoon (USA), and Wunderbaum (Netherlands). Expect ruminations on monstrous scenographies, catatonic choreographies, turbo-charged freneticism, visions of the apocalypse – and what might lie in its wake.

Author : Maria M. Delgado
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003828310
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staging Difficult Pasts written by Maria M. Delgado and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays brings together museum, theatre, and performance case studies with a focus on their distinctive and overlapping modes of producing memory for transnational audiences. Whether this is through narrative, object, embodied encounter or a combination of the three, this volume considers distinctions and interactions between memory and history specifically through the lenses of theatre and performance studies, visual culture, and museum and curator studies. This book is underpinned by three areas of research enquiry: How are contemporary theatre makers and museum curators staging historical narratives of difficult pasts? How might comparisons between theatre and museum practices offer new insights into the role objects play in generating and representing difficult pasts? What points of overlap, comparison, and contrast among these constructions of history and memory of authoritarianism, slavery, colonialism, genocide, armed conflict, fascism, and communism might offer an expanded understanding of difficult pasts in these transnational cultural contexts? This collection is designed for any scholar of its central disciplines, as well as for those interested in cultural geography, memory studies, and postcolonial theory. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives (CC-BY-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Tara T. Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814213650
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reimagining the Middle Passage written by Tara T. Green and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how contemporary Black artists envision the Middle Passage as an original site of social death and a space of potential rebirth.

Author : C. Riley Snorton
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452955859
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black on Both Sides written by C. Riley Snorton and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018 Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018 Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018 Winner of Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction 2018 Winner of the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies The story of Christine Jorgensen, America’s first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives—ones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris. Their erasure from trans history masks the profound ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects. In Black on Both Sides, C. Riley Snorton identifies multiple intersections between blackness and transness from the mid-nineteenth century to present-day anti-black and anti-trans legislation and violence. Drawing on a deep and varied archive of materials—early sexological texts, fugitive slave narratives, Afro-modernist literature, sensationalist journalism, Hollywood films—Snorton attends to how slavery and the production of racialized gender provided the foundations for an understanding of gender as mutable. In tracing the twinned genealogies of blackness and transness, Snorton follows multiple trajectories, from the medical experiments conducted on enslaved black women by J. Marion Sims, the “father of American gynecology,” to the negation of blackness that makes transnormativity possible. Revealing instances of personal sovereignty among blacks living in the antebellum North that were mapped in terms of “cross dressing” and canonical black literary works that express black men’s access to the “female within,” Black on Both Sides concludes with a reading of the fate of Phillip DeVine, who was murdered alongside Brandon Teena in 1993, a fact omitted from the film Boys Don’t Cry out of narrative convenience. Reconstructing these theoretical and historical trajectories furthers our imaginative capacities to conceive more livable black and trans worlds.

Author : Ariel Nereson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472055127
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy Moving written by Ariel Nereson and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-01-20 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the potential of movement to create and revise historical narratives of race and nation

Author : Kene Igweonu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040019919
Total Pages : 811 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of African Theatre and Performance written by Kene Igweonu and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-10 with total page 811 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of African Theatre and Performance brings together the very latest international research on the performing arts across the continent and the diaspora into one expansive and wide-ranging collection. The book offers readers a compelling journey through the different ideas, people and practices that have shaped African theatre and performance, from pre-colonial and colonial times, right through to the 20th and early 21st centuries. Resolutely Pan-African and inter- national in its coverage, the book draws on the expertise of a wide range of Africanist scholars, and also showcases the voices of performers and theatre practitioners working on the cutting-edge of African theatre and performance practice. Contributors aim to answer some of the big questions about the content (nature, form) and context (processes, practice) of theatre, whilst also painting a pluralistic and complex picture of the diversity of cultural, political and artistic exigencies across the continent. Covering a broad range of themes including postcolonialism, transnationalism, interculturalism, Afropolitanism, development and the diaspora, the handbook concludes by projecting possible future directions for African theatre and performance as we continue to advance into the 21st century and beyond. This ground-breaking new handbook will be essential reading for students and researchers studying theatre and performance practices across Africa and the diaspora. Kene Igweonu is Professor of Creative Education at University of the Arts London, where he is also Pro Vice-Chancellor and Head of London College of Communication. An interdisciplinary researcher, Professor Igweonu has extensive experience of senior academic leadership in immersive and interactive practices and performance practice. His practice research and publication interests are in storytelling, theatre, and performance in Africa and its Diaspora, as well as the Feldenkrais Method in health, wellbeing, and performance training. A champion for arts and creative industries, Professor Igweonu is Chair of DramaHE, Council Member for Creative UK, and until August 2023, President of the African Theatre Association.