1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465271203321

Autore

Studies Theatre History

Titolo

Theatre History Studies 2010 [[electronic resource] ] : African and African American Theatre Past and Present

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Alabama, : University of Alabama Press, 2010

ISBN

0-8173-8480-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 p.)

Collana

Theatre History Studies

Altri autori (Persone)

Justice-MalloyRhona

Disciplina

792.08996073

Soggetti

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.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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



2008Book Reviews; Books Received; Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

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

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910826924603321

Autore

Poppendieck Janet <1945->

Titolo

Free for all : fixing school food in America / / Janet Poppendieck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, [California] ; ; London, [England] ; ; Los Angeles, [California] : , : University of California Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-282-36102-3

9786612361029

0-520-94441-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Collana

California Studies in Food and Culture ; ; 28

Disciplina

371.7/160973

Soggetti

National school lunch program

School breakfast programs - United States

Children - Nutrition - United States

School children - Food - United States

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

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: In Search of School Food -- 1. School Food 101 -- 2. Food Fights: A Brief History -- 3. Penny Wise, Pound Foolish: What's Driving the Menu? -- 4. How Nutritious Are School Meals? -- 5. The Missing Millions: Problems of Participation -- 6. Hunger in the Classroom: Problems of Access --



7. Free, Reduced Price, Paid: Unintended Consequences -- 8. Local Heroes: Fixing School Food at the Community Level -- Conclusion: School Food at the Crossroads -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

How did our children end up eating nachos, pizza, and Tater Tots for lunch? Taking us on an eye-opening journey into the nation's school kitchens, this superbly researched book is the first to provide a comprehensive assessment of school food in the United States. Janet Poppendieck explores the deep politics of food provision from multiple perspectives--history, policy, nutrition, environmental sustainability, taste, and more. How did we get into the absurd situation in which nutritionally regulated meals compete with fast food items and snack foods loaded with sugar, salt, and fat? What is the nutritional profile of the federal meals? How well are they reaching students who need them? Opening a window onto our culture as a whole, Poppendieck reveals the forces--the financial troubles of schools, the commercialization of childhood, the reliance on market models--that are determining how lunch is served. She concludes with a sweeping vision for change: fresh, healthy food for all children as a regular part of their school day.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910809915603321

Autore

Freed Joanne Lipson <1983->

Titolo

Haunting encounters : the ethics of reading across boundaries of difference / / Joanne Lipson Freed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, New York ; ; London, [England] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-5017-1382-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (pages cm)

Disciplina

813/.0873309

Soggetti

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



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.