The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Perkins, Kathy; Defrantz, Thomas; Craft, Renée Alexander; Richards, Sandra

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance is an outstanding collection of specially written essays that charts the emergence, development, and diversity of African American Theatre and Performance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351751445
• Artikelnr.: 54785330

Autorenporträt

Kathy A. Perkins is Professor Emerita of the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a professional lighting designer who has designed throughout the U.S. and internationally, and as an author has edited six anthologies focusing on African/African Diaspora women. Sandra L. Richards is Professor Emerita in African American Studies and Theatre at Northwestern University. Specializing in African American, African, and African Diaspora drama, she has published articles on a range of playwrights and on tourism to slave sites in the Black Atlantic. Renée Alexander Craft is an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a joint appointment in the Department of Communication and Curriculum in Global Studies. She is a performance studies trained Black feminist writer, scholar, and educator. Thomas F. DeFrantz is Professor of African and African American Studies and Theater Studies at Duke University. He directs SLIPPAGE:Performance Culture Technology, a research group that explores live processing in theatrical contexts.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Editor/Contributor Biographies
Black Art Now by Nambi E. Kelley
Introduction: Renee Alexander Craft, Thomas F. DeFrantz. Kathy A. Perkins,
and Sandra L. Richards.
Part I: Highlights of African American Theatre and Performance
Part II: Seeing Ourselves Onstage
Part III: Institution Building: Making a Space of OUR Own
Part IV: Theatre and Social Change
Part V: Expanding the Traditional Stage
Index