Black Theatre
Temple University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-56639-944-9 (ISBN)
Generating a new understanding of the past--as well as a vision for the future--this path-breaking volume contains essays written by playwrights, scholars, and critics that analyze African American theatre as it is practiced today. Even as they acknowledge that Black experience is not monolithic, these contributors argue provocatively and persuasively for a Black consciousness that creates a culturally specific theatre. This theatre, rooted in an African mythos, offers ritual rather than realism; it transcends the specifics of social relations, reaching toward revelation. The ritual performance that is intrinsic to Black theatre renews the community; in Paul Carter Harrison's words, it "reveals the Form of Things Unknown" in a way that "binds, cleanses, and heals." Author note: Paul Carter Harrison is playwright in residence at the Theatre Center, Columbia College, Chicago. He is the author of several books including, The Drama of Nommo and the editor of several play anthologies. His play, The Great MacDaddy, received an Obie Award for playwriting. Victor Leo Walker is Chief Executive Officer of the African Grove Institute for the Arts, Inc. and the author of The Cultural MatriX: Los Angeles Inner City Cultural Center, 1965 to 1998 (forthcoming).
Gus Edwards teaches Film Studies and directs a multi-ethnic theatre program at Arizona State University. He has published two volumes of monologues from his plays including The Offering, Black Body Blues, and Louie & Ophelia. He is coeditor with Paul Carter Harrison of the anthology, Classic Plays from the Negro Ensemble Company.
Paul Carter Harrison is playwright in residence at the Theatre Center, Columbia College, Chicago. He is the author of several books including, The Drama of Nommo and the editor of several play anthologies. His play, The Great MacDaddy, received an Obie Award for playwriting.Victor Leo Walker is Chief Executive Officer of the African Grove Institute for the Arts, Inc. and the author of The Cultural MatriX: Los Angeles Inner City Cultural Center, 1965 to 1998 (forthcoming).Gus Edwards teaches Film Studies and directs a multi-ethnic theatre program at Arizona State University. He has published two volumes of monologues from his plays including The Offering, Black Body Blues, and Louie & Ophelia. He is coeditor with Paul Carter Harrison of the anthology, Classic Plays from the Negro Ensemble Company.Contributors: J.C. de Graft, Babatunde Lawal, Tejumola Olanian, Derek Walcott, SuAndi and Michael McMillan, Wole Soyinka, Marta Vega, Femi Euba, Keith Walker, May Joseph, Joni Jones, Debra Holton, Sydne Mahone, Paul K. Bryant-Jackson, Andrea J. Nouryeh, Jean Young, Beverly Robinson, Lundeana Thomas, Amiri Baraka, Keith Antar Mason, William Cook, Ntozake Shange, George E. Wolfe, Eleanor Traylor, and the editors.
Praise/Word - Paul Carter HarrisonPart I: African RootsIntroduction - Victor Leo Walker II1. Roots in African Drama and Theatre - J. C. de Graft2. The African Heritage of African American Art and Performance - Babatunde Lawal3. Agones: The Constitution of a Practice - Tejumola Olaniyan4. What the Twilight Says: An Overture - Derek Walcott5. Caribbean Narrative: Carnival Characters-In Life and in the Mind - Gus Edwards6. Rebaptizing the World in Our Own Terms: Black Theatre and Live Arts in Britain - Michael McMillan and SuAndiPart II: Mythology And MetaphysicsIntroduction - Victor Leo Walker II7. The Fourth Stage: Through the Mysteries of Ogun to the Origin of Yoruba Tragedy - Wole Soyinka8. The Candomble and Eshu-Eleggua in Brazilian and Cuban Yoruba-Based Ritual - Marta Moreno Vega9. Legba and the Politics of Metaphysics: The Trickster in Black Drama - Femi Euba10. Art for Life's Sake: Rituals and Rights of Self and Other in the Theatre of Aime Cesaire - Keith L. Walker11. Sycorax Mythology - May Joseph12. Conjuring as Radical Re/Membering in the Works of Shay Youngblood - Joni L. Jones13. Archetype and Masking in LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka's Dutchman - Victor Leo Walker IIPart III: Dramaturgical PracticeIntroduction - Paul Carter Harrison14. The Dramaturg's Way: Meditations on the Cartographer at the Crossroads - Deborah Wood Holton15. Introduction to Moon Marked and Touched by Sun - Sydne Mahone16. Kennedy's Travelers in the American and African Continuum - Paul K. Bryant-Jackson17. Mojo and the Sayso: A Drama of Nommo That Asks, "Is Your Mojo Working?" - Andrea J.Nouryeh18. Ritual Poetics and Rites of Passage in Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf - Jean YoungPart IV: PerformanceIntroduction - Gus Edwards19. Form and Transformation: Immanence of the Soul in the Performance Modes of Black Church and Black Music - Paul Carter Harrison20. The Sense of Self in Ritualizing New Performance Spaces for Survival - Beverly J. Robinson21. Barbara Ann Teer: From Holistic Training to Liberating Rituals - Lundeana M. Thomas22. Bopera Theory - Amiri Baraka23. From Hip-Hop to Hittite: Part X - Keith Antar Mason24. Members and Lames: Language in the Plays of August Wilson - William W. Cook25. Porque Tu No M'entrende? Whatcha Mean You Can't Understand Me? - Ntozake Shange26. Performance Method - George C. Wolfe27. Afterword: Testimony of a Witness - Eleanor W. TraylorAbout the Contributors
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 8.11.2002 |
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| Co-Autor | Gus Edwards, Victor Leo Walker Ii |
| Verlagsort | Philadelphia PA |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-56639-944-0 / 1566399440 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-56639-944-9 / 9781566399449 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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