LEADER 03834nam 22006013u 450 001 9910812340103321 005 20230725021427.0 010 $a0-8173-8480-4 035 $a(CKB)2560000000079524 035 $a(EBL)835684 035 $a(OCoLC)819637395 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000641982 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12266009 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000641982 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10629441 035 $a(PQKB)11576137 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC835684 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000079524 100 $a20130418d2010|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTheatre History Studies 2010$b[electronic resource] $eAfrican and African American Theatre Past and Present 210 $aAlabama $cUniversity of Alabama Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (314 p.) 225 1 $aTheatre History Studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8173-7107-9 327 $aContents; 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 327 $aMasculine 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 327 $aThinking about the Theatre-and Theatre Critics: An Interview with Robert Brustein, Conducted by Bert Cardullo, New York City, July 2008Book Reviews; Books Received; Contributors 330 $a To mark the thirtieth anniversary of the Theatre History Studies journal, editor Rhona Justice-Malloy and the Mid-America Theatre Conference have collected a special-themed volume covering the past and present of African and African American theatre. Topics included range from modern theatrical trends and challenges in Zimbabwe and Kenya, and examining the history and long-range impact of Paul Robeson's groundbreaking and troubled life and career, to gender issues in the work of Ghanaian playwright Efo Kodjo Mawugbe, and the ways that 19th-century American blackness was 410 0$aTheatre History Studies 606 $aAfrican American theater -- History -- 19th century 606 $aAfrican American theater -- History -- 20th century 606 $aAfrican Americans in the performing arts 606 $aAmerican drama -- African American authors -- History and criticism 615 4$aAfrican American theater -- History -- 19th century. 615 4$aAfrican American theater -- History -- 20th century. 615 4$aAfrican Americans in the performing arts. 615 4$aAmerican drama -- African American authors -- History and criticism. 676 $a792.08996073 700 $aStudies$b Theatre History$01620089 701 $aJustice-Malloy$b Rhona$01601304 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812340103321 996 $aTheatre History Studies 2010$93952682 997 $aUNINA