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The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson
Pulitzer-prizewinning playwright August Wilson, author ofFences,Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, andThe 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, culture and resistance, race and representation. Elam finds that each of Wilson's plays recaptures narratives lost, ignored, or avoided to create a new experience of the past that questions the historical categories of race and the meanings of blackness.
Harry J. Elam, Jr. is Professor of Drama at Stanford University and author of Taking It to the Streets: The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka (The University of Michigan Press).
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Black cultural traffic
Black Cultural Traffic traces how blackness travels globally in performance, engaging the work of an international and interdisciplinary mix of scholars, critics, and practicing artists. The book's essays provide nuanced and complex perspectives on black culture—not as a static set of shared beliefs and customs but as something that is contingent and dynamic. The essays engage with critical issues such as circulation, cultural appropriation, commodification, commercialization, and hybridity as they take up subjects that include television, hip-hop, R&B, gospel, film, theater, fashion, and pop music celebrities in Africa, Europe, and the United States. The book's engaging combination of scholarship with artists' statements will appeal to anyone interested in understanding the circulation and multidirectional movements of black culture.
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Editorial Comment
Elam highlights the articles included in the May 2005 issue of \"Theatre Journal,\" which articulate a concern for the body and how the body represents and is represented in theatrical time and space. The articles consider bodies marked by race and gender, ravaged by hunger, and informed by national origin.
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Editorial Comment
Elam introduces the theme of the December 2004 issue of \"Theatre Journal\": \"Theorizing the Performer.\" The topic came from Homi Bhabha's notion of the productive ambivalence of mimicry. Elam highlights the included articles.
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African American Performance and Theater History
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.
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