Towards A Queer Black Feminist Theatre Aesthetic: : Black American Theater By Three Black Female Playwrights In The Years 1915-1920

ISBN-13: 9783330055933 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 180 str.

Deanna Downes

Opis

"Black women playwrights in particular have ensured its [Black culture's] survival through creating performance pieces that reflexively evaluate their life experiences" (Sunni-Ali). This book is an analysis of three, queer, black female playwrights and their plays - Mary Powell Burrill, "They That Sit in Darkness"; Angelina Weld Grimké, "Rachel" and Alice Dunbar Nelson, "Mine Eyes Have Seen" - from the early twentieth century who did just that. I am interested in the reflexive analysis of black life in America that their plays offered their audiences. I am interested in how these plays reached black audiences - their manner of disbursement and performance - in magazine publications such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's "The Crisis" and Margaret Sanger's "The Birth Control Review". I am interested in how the form they created can be a model for creating and identifying a contemporary queer black feminist theater aesthetic.

O autorze

Deanna Downes, Ph.D., M.F.A. is a scholar-artist. Her research is a rediscovery of the work of three black female playwrights in the years 1915-1920, and an identification of them as early practitioners of a queer black feminist theatre aesthetic. Her work, focuses on re-imagining and radicalizing process, production, and performance in community.