LEADER 03876nam 22006492 450 001 9910819399103321 005 20151005020621.0 010 $a1-107-22980-4 010 $a1-139-15311-0 010 $a1-283-34264-2 010 $a9786613342645 010 $a1-139-16069-9 010 $a1-139-16169-5 010 $a1-139-15612-8 010 $a1-139-15788-4 010 $a1-139-15964-X 010 $a1-139-02724-7 035 $a(CKB)2550000000061116 035 $a(EBL)807226 035 $a(OCoLC)763159317 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000550894 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11360306 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000550894 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10524457 035 $a(PQKB)10978722 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139027243 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC807226 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL807226 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10514189 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL334264 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000061116 100 $a20110221d2011|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe African American theatrical body $ereception, performance, and the stage /$fSoyica Diggs Colbert$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 329 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-01438-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aOverture: 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. 330 $aPresenting 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. 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature. 676 $a812/.509896073 700 $aColbert$b Soyica Diggs$f1979-$01121289 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819399103321 996 $aThe African American theatrical body$94049644 997 $aUNINA