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UNINA9910465271203321 |
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Studies Theatre History |
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Theatre History Studies 2010 [[electronic resource] ] : African and African American Theatre Past and Present |
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Alabama, : University of Alabama Press, 2010 |
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1 online resource (314 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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African American theater -- History -- 19th century |
African American theater -- History -- 20th century |
African Americans in the performing arts |
American drama -- African American authors -- History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Poor "Black" Theatre: Mid-America Theatre Conference Keynote Address, March 7, 2009; Hit-and-Run Theatre: The Rise of a New Dramatic Form in Zimbabwe; Abject No More: Authority and Authenticity in the Theatrical Career of Rose McClendon; How Does the Show Go On? Theatre for Development in Post-election Kenya; The Unreported Miracle of Paul Robeson and The Miracle; Mvett Performance: Retention, Reinvention, and Exaggeration in Remembering the Past; "You Hip to Buffalo?" The Hidden Heritage of Black Theatre in Western New York |
Masculine Women, Feminist Men: Assertions and Contradictions in Mawugbe's In the Chest of a WomanUnderstanding Paul Robeson's Soviet Experience; Ota the Other: An African on Display in America; Oteller and Desdemonum: Defining Nineteenth-CenturyBlackness; "Looking at One's Self through the Eyes of Others": Representations of the Progressive Era Middle Class in W. E. B. Du Bois's The Star of Ethiopia; Knowing Their Place: The Ulster Lyric Theatre, the Lyric Theatre, and the Northern Irish Theatre Scene |
Thinking about the Theatre-and Theatre Critics: An Interview with Robert Brustein, Conducted by Bert Cardullo, New York City, July |
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2008Book Reviews; Books Received; Contributors |
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To mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Theatre History Studies journal, editor Rhona Justice-Malloy and the Mid-America Theatre Conference have collected a special-themed volume covering the past and present of African and African American theatre. Topics included range from modern theatrical trends and challenges in Zimbabwe and Kenya, and examining the history and long-range impact of Paul Robeson's groundbreaking and troubled life and career, to gender issues in the work of Ghanaian playwright Efo Kodjo Mawugbe, and the ways that 19th-century American blackness was |
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UNINA9910809915603321 |
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Freed Joanne Lipson <1983-> |
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Haunting encounters : the ethics of reading across boundaries of difference / / Joanne Lipson Freed |
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Ithaca, New York ; ; London, [England] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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1 online resource (pages cm) |
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Ghosts in literature |
American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism |
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
Ghost stories - History and criticism |
Supernatural in literature |
Commonwealth fiction (English) - 21st century - History and criticism |
Transnationalism in literature |
Difference (Philosophy) in literature |
Memory in literature |
Psychic trauma in literature |
Commonwealth fiction (English) - 20th century - History and criticism |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Figures of Estrangement -- 2. Telling the Traumas of History -- 3. Invisible Victims, Visible Absences -- 4. Haunting Futures and the Dystopian Imagination -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Acts of cross-cultural reading have ethical consequences. In Haunting Encounters, Joanne Lipson Freed traces the narrative strategies through which certain works of fiction forge connections with their readers across boundaries of difference. Freed uses the idea of haunting-an intense, temporary, and transformative encounter that defies rational understanding-as a metaphor for the kinds of ethical relationships that such works cultivate with their readers across boundaries of difference. Freed points out how such works as Toni Morrison's Beloved, Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things strike a delicate balance between empathy and alterity. Their engaging narratives, Freed argues, bring unfamiliar characters and distant settings to life for readers who encounter them as "other," but they also highlight the limits of fiction, holding in check the impulse to colonize another's experience with one's own. Haunting Encounters is a sensitive and perceptive application of theory to real-world concerns. It draws together the fields of postcolonial fiction and narrative ethics and suggests original modes of engagement between readers and books that promise new ways of looking at the world. |
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