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Autore: | Rankine Patrice D |
Titolo: | Aristotle and black drama : a theater of civil disobedience / / Patrice D. Rankine |
Pubblicazione: | Waco, Texas, : Baylor University Press, 2013 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (271 p.) |
Disciplina: | 812.009/896073 |
Soggetto topico: | American drama - African American authors - History and criticism |
African American aesthetics | |
American drama - Classical influences | |
Civil disobedience in literature | |
Classicism in literature | |
Comparative literature - Modern and classical | |
African American theater - History | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: Civil disobedience as resistance to tradition and performance -- Classical origins of character and Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a negro, Electra, and Orestes -- The Oedipus story and the perfect play, or The gospel according to Rita Dove: The darker face of the earth and Sonata Mulattica: a life in five movements and a short play -- Racial intent and dramatic form: Eugene O'Neill's All Gods' chillun got wings and The Emperor Jones -- Aristotle's Spectacle and August Wilson's Spectacle character: Joe Turner's Come and gone -- Freedom songs and metaphors of healing: Eugene O'Neill's Mourning becomes Electra, Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the sun, and Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus and Topdog/Underdog -- Truth and reconciliation: civil disobedience and the cosmopolitan citizen: Charles Smith's The gospel according to James, Thomas Bradshaw's Mary, David Mamet's Race, and Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Black theater, classical philosophy, and modern civil resistance |
Titolo autorizzato: | Aristotle and black drama |
ISBN: | 1-4813-0003-2 |
1-60258-454-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910815471103321 |
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