Kimberley W. Benston

Performing Blackness (eBook, PDF)

Enactments of African-American Modernism

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Performing Blackness offers a challenging interpretation of black cultural expression since the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Exploring drama, music, poetry, sermons, and criticism, Benston offers an exciting meditation on modern black performance's role in realising African-American aspirations for autonomy and authority.
Artists covered include:
* John Coltrane
* Ntozake Shange
* Ed Bullins
* Amiri Baraka
* Adrienne Kennedy
* Michael Harper.
Performing Blackness is an exciting contribution to the ongoing debate about the vitality and importance of black culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135078249
• Artikelnr.: 39265973

Autorenporträt

Kimberley Benston is Kenan Professor of English at Haverford College. He is the author of Baraka: The Renegade and the Mask and editor of Speaking of You: The Vision of Ralph Ellison.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue 1. Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Drama and the Quest for Community
2. Blow into the Freezing Night: Expressive Agency in Coltrane and the
Coltrane poem 3. Find the Self, Then Kill it: Scripts and Scores of
Self-Enactment 4. I Was Myself Within the Circle: Vernacular and Critical
Paradigms of Expressive Agency Epilogue