Contemporary Black Theatre and Performance (eBook, ePUB)

Acts of Rebellion, Activism, and Solidarity
Redaktion: Williams, Deron S.; Green-Rogers, Martine Kei; Long, Khalid Y.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How are Black artists, activists, and pedagogues wielding acts of rebellion, activism, and solidarity to precipitate change? How have contemporary performances impacted Black cultural, social, and political struggles? What are the ways in which these acts and artists engage varied Black identities and explore shared histories?

Contemporary Black Theatre and Performance investigates these questions to illuminate the relationship between performance, identity, intersectionality, and activism in North America and beyond. It features contributions from scholars, artists, and activists from across disciplines who explore the nuances and varied forms of Black performance in the 21st century while incorporating performance-based methodologies and queer and black feminist theories.

Among the many topics addressed by contributors are antiracist pedagogy, Black queer identity formation in Black playwriting, digital blackface, and Black women's subversive practices within contemporary popular culture. It encompasses dramatic analysis of Lynn Nottage's Sweat, Tarell Alvin McCraney's Choir Boy, and acts of resistance during the Black Lives Matter summer 2020 highway protests. A series of conversations with artists and scholars are woven throughout the book's three sections, including with playwrights Christina Anderson and Donja R. Love, and Willa Taylor, Director of Education and Community Engagement at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350252943
• Artikelnr.: 67362030

Autorenporträt

DeRon S. Williams is Assistant Professor of Theatre in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Loyola University Chicago, USA. Khalid Y. Long is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies and the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Georgia, USA. Martine Kei Green-Rogers is the Dean of The Theatre School at DePaul University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Preface Acknowledgments Introduction
DeRon S. Williams (Loyola University Chicago
USA)
Khalid Y. Long (University of Georgia
USA)
and Martine Kei Green-Rogers (DePaul University
USA) PART I: STAGE AS A SITE OF RADICAL POSSIBILITIES 1. Sweat Equity: Lynn Nottage's Radical Dialectic of Deindustrialization
Jocelyn L. Buckner (Chapman University
USA) 2. "Those Songs Were More than Just": Spirituals
Queer Reckonings and Tarell Alvin McCraney's Choir Boy
Isaiah Matthew Wooden (Swarthmore College
USA) 3. Trauma
Truth
and Turning the Lens: Black Theater Artists and White Theater Audiences
Suzanne Delle
(York College of Pennsylvania
USA)
and Loretta Brady (Saint Anselm College
USA) In The Trenches: A Conversation with Christina Anderson
DeRon S. Williams (Loyola University Chicago
USA) PART II: PERFORMANCE IN THE MAKING 4. Re-Writing the Declaration: Healing In Theater From A Black
Queer
Feminist Lens
Quenna Barrett (NYU Steinhardt
USA) 5. ineffable dramaturgies: Experiments in Black Queer and Trans Liberation On and Off Stage
s.e. callender (Independent Scholar/Artist
Canada) 6. Reconsidering and Recasting
Ray Proctor (Tulane University
USA) 7. We are the Canon: Anti-Racist Theatre Pedagogy
Maya Johnson (Independent Scholar and Practitioner
USA)
Daphnie Sicre (Loyola Marymount University
USA)
and Karl O'Brian Williams (NYU
USA) In The Trenches: A Conversation with Donja R. Love
Martine Kei Green-Rogers (DePaul University
USA) PART III: PERFORMANCE AND/AS PROTEST 8. (W)right Of Way: Black Geographies and American Interstates
Jenny Henderson (Tufts University
USA) 9. Honk for Justice
Jocelyn Prince (Northwestern University
USA)
and Harvey Young (Boston University
USA) 10. Serena Williams' Sonic Refusal
Leticia Ridley (Santa Clara University
USA) 11. Cancel Culture
Digital Blackface
and Internalized Anti-Blackness
Aviva Helen Neff (Columbus College of Art and Design
USA) In The Trenches: A Conversation with Willa J. Taylor
Khalid Y. Long (University of Georgia
USA) Bibliography Index