1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450405403321

Titolo

Aspects of contemporary France / / edited by Sheila Perry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1997

ISBN

1-134-78887-8

0-203-12921-0

1-280-32913-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PerrySheila <1952->

Disciplina

944.083

Soggetti

National characteristics, French

Electronic books.

France Civilization 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION: FRANCE IN THE MAKING; THE PRESIDENCY; PARTY POLITICS; DEFENCE POLICY; THE REGIONS IN THE MARKET PLACE; HIGHER EDUCATION; TELEVISION; WOMEN; THE CHURCH; LACIT AND ISLAM; LINGUISTIC POLICIES; CINEMA; A MARKET OF 58 MILLION CONSUMERS; Index

Sommario/riassunto

France is defined by claims of uniqueness made by or about the French. Aspects of Contemporary France illuminates the contemporary economic, cultural, political and social climate of France. Using a multidisciplinary approach, this book explains the historical background to controversial issues. It also traces France's road to nationhood through religion, language and territory.Each chapter is by a specialist in the field and is based on the most up to date information and research. Beginning with the present day, the book traces the historical background to events and provides a



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781865903321

Autore

Colbert Soyica Diggs <1979->

Titolo

The African American theatrical body : reception, performance, and the stage / / Soyica Diggs Colbert [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-107-22980-4

1-139-15311-0

1-283-34264-2

9786613342645

1-139-16069-9

1-139-16169-5

1-139-15612-8

1-139-15788-4

1-139-15964-X

1-139-02724-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 329 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

812/.509896073

Soggetti

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

African Americans in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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. Reenacting 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: Amiri Baraka's Slave Ship and 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.



Sommario/riassunto

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.