Soyica Diggs Colbert

African American Theatrical Body (eBook, ePUB)

Reception, Performance, and the Stage

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Presenting an innovative approach to performance studies and literary history, Soyica Colbert argues for the centrality of black performance traditions to African American literature, including preaching, dancing, blues and gospel, and theatre itself, showing how these performance traditions create the 'performative ground' of African American literary texts. Across a century of literary production using the physical space of the theatre and the discursive space of the page, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, August Wilson and others deploy performances to re-situate black people in time and space. The study examines African American plays past and present, including A Raisin in the Sun, Blues for Mister Charlie and Joe Turner's Come and Gone, demonstrating how African American dramatists stage black performances in their plays as acts of recuperation and restoration, creating sites that have the potential to repair the damage caused by slavery and its aftermath.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139153119
• Artikelnr.: 49265926

Autorenporträt

Soyica Colbert is an Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth College. She is currently working on two book projects entitled Black Movements: Performance, Politics, and Migration and Lorraine Hansberry: Activist and Artist. She has published articles on James Baldwin, Alice Childress, August Wilson, Lynn Nottage and Suzan-Lori Parks. President of the Black Theater Association, Founder of the New England Black Scholars Collective and member of the Modern Language Association, the Association of Theater in Higher Education, the American Studies Association and the American Society of Theater Research, Colbert is the recipient of a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Career Enhancement Fellowship (2010-2011), Walter and Constance Burke Research Awards (2007 and 2010), a Stanford Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship (2006-2007), a Mellon Summer Research Grant (2005) and the Robert W. Woodruff Library Fellowship (2005). Recent undergraduate classes include Black Theatre USA, Modern Black Literature, American Drama, Introduction to African American Studies, the Drama of August Wilson and Suzan-Lori Parks, Contemporary Playwrights of Color, and Race and Performance. Her research interests span the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, from William Wells Brown to Beyoncé, and from poetics to performance.

Inhaltsangabe

Overture: rites that render repairing: Suzan-Lori Parks' The America Play;
1. Repetition/reproduction: the DNA of black expressive culture: Lorraine
Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun; 2. Recuperating black diasporic history:
W. E. B. Du Bois' The Star of Ethiopia; 3. Re-enacting the Harlem
Renaissance: Zora Neale Hurston's Color Struck; 4. Resisting shame,
offering praise and worship: Langston Hughes's Tambourines to Glory; 5.
Resisting death: the blues bravado of a ghost: James Baldwin's Blues for
Mister Charlie; 6. Rituals of repair: August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and
Gone; 7. Reconstitution: Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog/Underdog; Epilogue: Black
movements: Tarell Alvin McCraney's In the Red and Brown Water;
Bibliography.