Preaching the Blues: Black Feminist Performance in Lynching Plays

ISBN-13: 9781138479616 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 138 str.

Maisha 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