03866nam 22006133u 450 991046527120332120210114014955.00-8173-8480-4(CKB)2560000000079524(EBL)835684(OCoLC)819637395(SSID)ssj0000641982(PQKBManifestationID)12266009(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000641982(PQKBWorkID)10629441(PQKB)11576137(MiAaPQ)EBC835684(EXLCZ)99256000000007952420130418d2010|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrTheatre History Studies 2010[electronic resource] African and African American Theatre Past and PresentAlabama University of Alabama Press20101 online resource (314 p.)Theatre History StudiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8173-7107-9 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 YorkMasculine 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 SceneThinking about the Theatre-and Theatre Critics: An Interview with Robert Brustein, Conducted by Bert Cardullo, New York City, July 2008Book Reviews; Books Received; Contributors 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 Theatre History StudiesAfrican American theater -- History -- 19th centuryAfrican American theater -- History -- 20th centuryAfrican Americans in the performing artsAmerican drama -- African American authors -- History and criticismElectronic books.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.792.08996073Studies Theatre History915048Justice-Malloy Rhona870773AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910465271203321Theatre History Studies 20102050805UNINA