Kimberley W Benston

Performing Blackness

Enactments of African-American Modernism

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 653g
• ISBN-13: 9780415009492
• ISBN-10: 0415009499
• Artikelnr.: 21119425

Autorenporträt

Kimberley Benston is Kenan Professor of English at Haverford College. He is the author of Baraka: The Renegade and the Mask and editor of Speaking of You: The Vision of Ralph Ellison.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue 1. Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Drama and the Quest for Community
2. Blow into the Freezing Night: Expressive Agency in Coltrane and the
Coltrane poem 3. Find the Self, Then Kill it: Scripts and Scores of
Self-Enactment 4. I Was Myself Within the Circle: Vernacular and Critical
Paradigms of Expressive Agency Epilogue