Staging black fugitivity /
"Argues that contemporary black dramas use the slave past to complicate views of the history of slavery, the realities of racial progress, and black subjectivity. McCormick analyzes work by August Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks, Tanya Barfield, Lorraine Hansberry, Lydia Diamond, Robert O'Hara, a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Black performance and cultural criticism.
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| Summary: | "Argues that contemporary black dramas use the slave past to complicate views of the history of slavery, the realities of racial progress, and black subjectivity. McCormick analyzes work by August Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks, Tanya Barfield, Lorraine Hansberry, Lydia Diamond, Robert O'Hara, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, amongst others"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 162 pages ; illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-155) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814214053 0814214053 9780814255445 0814255442 |