wyszukanych pozycji: 6
African American Performance and Theater History: A Critical Reader
ISBN: 9780195127256 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. African American Performance and Theater History is an anthology of critical writings that explores the intersections of race, theater, and performance in America. Assembled by two esteemed scholars in black theater, Harry J. Elam, Jr. and David Krasner, and composed of essays from acknowledged authorities in the field, this anthology is organized into four sections representative of the ways black theater, drama, and performance interact and enact continual social, cultural, and political dialogues. Ranging from a discussion of dramatic performances of Uncle Tom's Cabin...
African American Performance and Theater History is an anthology of critical writings that explores the intersections of race, theater, and p...
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233,16 zł |
African American Performance and Theater History: A Critical Reader
ISBN: 9780195127249 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. African-American Performance and Theatre History is an anthology of critical writings that explores the intersections of race, theater, and performance in America. Assembled by two respected scholars in black theater and composed of essays from acknowledged authorities in the field (Joseph Roach and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. among other), this volume is organized into four sections representative of the ways black theater, drama, and performance past and present interact and enact continuous social, cultural, and political dialogues. The premise behind the book is that analyzing...
African-American Performance and Theatre History is an anthology of critical writings that explores the intersections of race, theater, and p...
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770,90 zł |
Taking It to the Streets: The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka
ISBN: 9780472087686 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The performances of Luis Valdez's El Teatro Campesino, the farmworkers' theater, and Amiri Baraka's (LeRoi Jones's) Black Revolutionary Theater (BRT) during the 1960s and 1970s, offer preeminent examples of social protest theater during a momentous and tumultuous historical juncture. The performances of these groups linked the political, the cultural, and the spiritual, while agitating against the dominant power structure and for the transformation of social and theatrical practices in the U.S. Founded during the Delano Grape Pickers' Strike and Black Power rebellions of the mid-1960s, both...
The performances of Luis Valdez's El Teatro Campesino, the farmworkers' theater, and Amiri Baraka's (LeRoi Jones's) Black Revolutionary Theater (BRT) ...
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120,31 zł |
Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture
ISBN: 9780472068401 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "A shrewdly designed, generously expansive, timely contribution to our understanding of how 'black' expression continues to define and defy the contours of global (post)modernity. The essays argue persuasively for a transnational ethos binding disparate African and diasporic enactments, and together provide a robust conversation about the nature, history, future, and even possibility of 'blackness' as a distinctive mode of cultural practice."
--Kimberly Benston, author of Performing Blackness "Black Cultural Traffic is nothing less than our generation's manifesto on... "A shrewdly designed, generously expansive, timely contribution to our understanding of how 'black' expression continues to define and defy the contou...
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180,60 zł |
The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson
ISBN: 9780472031634 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright August Wilson, author of "Fences, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and "The Piano Lesson, among other dramatic works, is one of the most well respected American playwrights on the contemporary stage. The founder of the Black Horizon Theater Company, his self-defined dramatic project is to review twentieth-century African American history by creating a play for each decade.
Theater scholar and critic Harry J. Elam examines Wilson's published plays within the context of contemporary African American literature and in relation to concepts of memory and history,... Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright August Wilson, author of "Fences, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and "The Piano Lesson, among other dramatic works, is on...
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136,75 zł |
The Theatre of August Wilson
ISBN: 9781472530486 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The first comprehensive study of August Wilson's drama by noted Wilson scholar, Alan Nadel, this work introduces the major themes and motifs that unite Wilson's ten-play cycle about African American life in each decade of the 20th century. Framed by Wilson's life experiences and informed by his extensive interviews, this book provides fresh, coherent, detailed readings of each play, well-situated in the extant scholarship. It also provides an overview of the cycle as a whole, demonstrating how it comprises a compelling interrogation of American culture and historiography. The first comprehensive study of August Wilson's drama by noted Wilson scholar, Alan Nadel, this work introduces the major themes and motifs that u... |
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520,70 zł |