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The Captive Stage: Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North
ISBN: 9780472052264 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Captive Stage, Douglas A. Jones, Jr. argues that proslavery ideology remained the dominant mode of racial thought in the antebellum north, even though chattel slavery had virtually disappeared from the region by the turn of the nineteenth century--and that northerners cultivated their proslavery imagination most forcefully in their performance practices. Jones explores how multiple constituencies, ranging from early national artisans and Jacksonian wage laborers to patrician elites and bourgeois social reformers, used the stage to appropriate and refashion defenses of black...
In The Captive Stage, Douglas A. Jones, Jr. argues that proslavery ideology remained the dominant mode of racial thought in the antebellum nort...
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138,10 |
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Coloring Whiteness: Acts of Critique in Black Performance
ISBN: 9780472052363 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Coloring Whiteness pays homage to the ways that African American artists and performers have interrogated tropes and mythologies of whiteness to reveal racial inequalities, focusing on comedy sketches, street theater, visual art, video, TV journalism, and voice-over work since 1964. By investigating enactments of whiteness--from the use of white makeup and suggestive masks, to literary motifs and cultural narratives regarding "white" characteristics and qualities--Faedra Chatard Carpenter explores how artists have challenged commonly held notions of racial identity. Through its layered...
Coloring Whiteness pays homage to the ways that African American artists and performers have interrogated tropes and mythologies of whiteness t...
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148,34 |
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How the Streets Changed Me and Almost Took My Life
ISBN: 9780990553106 / Angielski / Miękka / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Even at a young age, Vincent's obsession with money and his love of attention were preeminent traits. Because of it, his life would be forever changed and nowhere near mediocre. He recognized he was quite different from his peers and quickly sensed that he was twice as advanced, albeit in streetwise wit. Realizing the possibility of acquiring absolute power and respect in his environment, Vincent confidently set off on a path to triumph, which ironically led to near self-destruction. Grasping the possibility of contributing to his own tragic demise, something deep within forced Vincent to...
Even at a young age, Vincent's obsession with money and his love of attention were preeminent traits. Because of it, his life would be forever changed...
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87,72 |
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Sweet Jessamine
ISBN: 9780692299500 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The moment Louis Harris enters her life, everything changes: reckless freedom, late-night rendezvous, and lying endlessly to her mother which adds further angst to their already fragile relationship. But then comes the day that transforms her world forever: she's pregnant and Louis, being the young stud that he is, wants nothing to do with her. Forced to reconsider her current location, Christina learns she must stay with her Aunt Bessie in Charleston South Carolina, a world away from her problems. This place would be the start of new beginnings for her especially when she meets Michael Rose,...
The moment Louis Harris enters her life, everything changes: reckless freedom, late-night rendezvous, and lying endlessly to her mother which adds fur...
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48,12 |
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Red Velvet
ISBN: 9780573703225 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Red Velvet is about the nineteenth century black American actor Ira Aldridge. In a theatre dressing room in Poland, an elderly and sick Aldridge prepares to play King Lear. The intrusion of a young female journalist forces him to look back on the defining moment of his illustrious career. Thirty years previously, Edmund Kean, one of the greatest actors of his generation, collapses on the Theatre Royal stage in London, and Pierre Laporte, theatre manager and friend, asks Aldridge to replace him as Othello. At the same time Parliament is preparing to vote in favour of abolishing slavery...
Red Velvet is about the nineteenth century black American actor Ira Aldridge. In a theatre dressing room in Poland, an elderly and sick Aldridg...
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60,96 |
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Black Tie: One Heart, Three Lovers
ISBN: 9780986134005 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A hot suspenseful romantic thriller about the life of Vivian Carter; a woman who loved her man more than anything in this world but that would all change when death comes knocking and separates their souls. Vivian develops a threatening disease and almost gives up hope, until she realizes she may have a second chance at life and this time Vivian was going to make it amazing. But could she love another as much as the man she so dearly cherished and lost.
A hot suspenseful romantic thriller about the life of Vivian Carter; a woman who loved her man more than anything in this world but that would all cha...
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87,49 |
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Blessed!
ISBN: 9781498424769 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Blessed is the story of Wood, a young man in his early 20's who grew up in the hood, and despite having loving and nurturing parents, found himself dealing drugs on the street corners. Wood is a well-known, and even respected member of the community. He thinks his life is just fine the way it is, despite its illegal and dangerous nature. One day, Wood finds himself fighting for his life after being gunned down in his own neighborhood over a drug related turf war. On the brink of life and death, Wood calls out to God for help and strength to make it, promising he'd change his ways in exchange...
Blessed is the story of Wood, a young man in his early 20's who grew up in the hood, and despite having loving and nurturing parents, found himself de...
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62,02 |
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The Liquid Plain
ISBN: 9780881456363 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the docks of late 18th-century Rhode Island, two runaway slaves, Adjua and Dembi, plan a desperate and daring run to freedom. When a chance encounter triggers an unexpected collision of worlds, painful truths are uncovered, and the brutality of past crimes spills into the next generation. "American theater needs more plays like Naomi Wallace's THE LIQUID PLAIN - by which I mean works that are historical, epic and poetic." -Time Out New York "Elegant ... Wallace is as much a poet as she is a playwright." -The New Yorker "A powerful, cathartic reminder that true freedom always starts in the...
On the docks of late 18th-century Rhode Island, two runaway slaves, Adjua and Dembi, plan a desperate and daring run to freedom. When a chance encount...
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68,27 |
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Cleofas: The Clash of the Clowns
ISBN: 9781518601514 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This drama is set in one of the developing towns in the deltas of Nigeria. It is a comedy of distinctive plotting written thoughtfully to evoke laughter, at the same time bears an immeasurable message. The story revolves round two witty incompatible ex-convicts deported from Botswana, in the southern part of Africa, coming back to their town with highly synchronized scams of manipulating and swindling people in the name of God. The main objective of writing this play is to help curb the increasing trends of lots of people falling into the ploys of manipulators, who are earnestly seeking for...
This drama is set in one of the developing towns in the deltas of Nigeria. It is a comedy of distinctive plotting written thoughtfully to evoke laught...
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60,15 |
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Seven Plays of Koffi Kwahulé: In and Out of Africa
ISBN: 9780472073498 / Angielski / Twarda / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The work of renowned Ivoirian playwright Koffi Kwahule has been translated into some 15 languages and is performed regularly throughout Europe, Africa, and the Americas. For the first time, Seven Plays of Koffi Kwahule In and Out of Africa makes available to an Anglophone audience some of the best and most representative plays by one of Francophone Africa's most accomplished living playwrights. Kwahule's theater delves into both the horror of civil war in Africa and the diasporic experience of peoples of African origin living in Europe and the "New World." From the split...
The work of renowned Ivoirian playwright Koffi Kwahule has been translated into some 15 languages and is performed regularly throughout Europe, Africa...
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353,30 |
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Seven Plays of Koffi Kwahulé: In and Out of Africa
ISBN: 9780472053490 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The work of renowned Ivoirian playwright Koffi Kwahule has been translated into some 15 languages and is performed regularly throughout Europe, Africa, and the Americas. For the first time, Seven Plays of Koffi Kwahule In and Out of Africa makes available to an Anglophone audience some of the best and most representative plays by one of Francophone Africa's most accomplished living playwrights. Kwahule's theater delves into both the horror of civil war in Africa and the diasporic experience of peoples of African origin living in Europe and the "New World." From the split...
The work of renowned Ivoirian playwright Koffi Kwahule has been translated into some 15 languages and is performed regularly throughout Europe, Africa...
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127,85 |
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The Ghetto Valedictorian: Knowledge Became My Hustle
ISBN: 9781544049939 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about how a young boy from the inner city hood was able to defy the odds and become successful. He started off in the wrong direction but with the proper guidance and the blessings from God, he was able to fight through all the bad influences. He was able to stay focused enough to choose a path that would lead him to a better life, instead of staying on the path of self-destruction. Although he did not have the advantages that more well off individuals in the middle class or wealthy had, he did have the loving support of his family and a thirst for learning. So Knowledge became...
This book is about how a young boy from the inner city hood was able to defy the odds and become successful. He started off in the wrong direction but...
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80,26 |
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Deception
ISBN: 9781621934868 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Death has a way of exposing secrets better left untold, and no one knows this better than sisters Gabriela and Ariana Mendoza. Death has a way of exposing secrets better left untold, and no one knows this better than sisters Gabriela and Ariana Mendoza. |
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64,21 |
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100 Plays for the First Hundred Days
ISBN: 9781559365840 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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57,14 |
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Legacy: 2nd Edition To Profound Bestseller Letters To My Daughters
ISBN: 9780999042007 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,20 |
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10-Minute Plays Anthology Presented by Harlem9, Inc.: 48Hours in... (TM) Harlem Volume 2
ISBN: 9781548746650 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,20 |
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I'm Always By Your Side 2
ISBN: 9781548804176 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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52,13 |
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Pipeline (Tcg Edition)
ISBN: 9781559365871 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,96 |
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The long cold grey death of Winter
ISBN: 9781984967442 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
60,20 |
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Core
ISBN: 9781545616666 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
109,12 |
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