Harvey Young

Theatre and Race (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The theatre has always been a place where conceptions of race and racism have been staged, shared and perpetuated. Harvey Young introduces key ideas about race, before tracing its relationship with theatre and performance - from Ancient Athens to the present day.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230390973
• Artikelnr.: 62945091

Autorenporträt

Harvey Young is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Northwestern University, USA. He is the author of Embodying Black Experience, editor of The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre and co-editor of Performance in the Borderlands and Reimagining A Raisin in the Sun: Four New Plays.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editors' Preface.- 1. Race as Theatre.- 2. Racializing the Other in.- the Classical Era.- 3. Cultural Anxieties in the Elizabethan Period.- 4. Blackface.- 5. Other Faces.- 6. Colorblind and Color Conscious Casting.- 7. Conclusion: Post-race Theatre.- Further.- Reading.- Index.- Acknowledgements.

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Series editor's preface
Race as theatre
Racializing the "other" in the classical era
Cultural anxieties in the Elizabethan period
Blackface
Other faces
Colorblind and color-conscious casting
Conclusion: post-race theatre
Further reading
Index
Acknowledgements