Preaching the Blues: Black Feminist Performance in Lynching Plays

ISBN-13: 9781032088495 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 148 str.

Maisha S. Akbar

Opis

Preaching the Blues: Black Feminist Performance in Lynching Plays examines several lynching plays to foreground black women’s performances as non-normative subjects who challenge white supremacist ideology.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. A Blueswoman Matters: Black Women’s Feminisms in Anti-Lynching Plays 2. Saving White Face: Examining Anti-Lynching Plays Set in White Households 3. Sketches from a Black Feminist Professor’s Notebook: Staging Lynching Plays at an Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in the South Epilogue Index

O autorze

Maisha S. Akbar is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Fort Valley State University, where she is founding coordinator of a Theatre and Performance Studies academic curriculum. Dr. Akbar’s research interests include black feminist performance studies and psychoanalysis. More information on her work can be found at www.blackplaybook.com.