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  • 1964, A Year in African American Performance History

    by David Krasner ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This book examines the Civil Rights Movement from the perspective of a single year, 1964.The book analyses specific events that occurred in 1964 as benchmarks of the Civil Right Movement, making the case that 1964 was a watershed year. Each chapter considers individually politics, rhetoric, sports, dramatic literature, film, art, and music, breaking down the events and illustrating their ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • African American Performance and Theater History

    A Critical Reader

    Edited by Harry J. Elam, David Krasner ...
    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. among other), this volume is organized into four sections representative of ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • A History of Modern Drama, Volume II

    1960 - 2000

    by David Krasner ...
    A History of Modern Drama: Volume II explores a remarkable breadth of topics and analytical approaches to the dramatic works, authors, and transitional events and movements that shaped world drama from 1960 through to the dawn of the new millennium.Features detailed analyses of plays and playwrights, examining the influence of a wide range of writers, from mainstream icons such as Harold Pinter ... Read more

    $86.00 USD

  • Staging Philosophy

    Intersections of Theater, Performance, and Philosophy

    Edited by David Krasner, David Z. Saltz ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    The fifteen original essays in Staging Philosophy make useful connections between the discipline of philosophy and the fields of theater and performance and use these insights to develop new theories about theater. Each of the contributors—leading scholars in the fields of performance and philosophy—breaks new ground, presents new arguments, and offers new theories that will pave the way for ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • A History of Modern Drama, Volume I

    by David Krasner ...
    Covering the period 1879 to 1959, and taking in everything from Ibsen to Beckett, this book is volume one of a two-part comprehensive examination of the plays, dramatists, and movements that comprise modern world drama.Contains detailed analysis of plays and playwrights, connecting themes and offering original interpretationsIncludes coverage of non-English works and traditions to create a global ... Read more

    $148.00 USD

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  • The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader

    by Henry Louis Gates Jr ...
    Educator, writer, critic, intellectual, film-maker-Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been widely praised as being one of America's most prominent and prolific scholars. In what will be an essential volume, The Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Reader collects three decades of writings from his many fields of interest and expertise.From his earliest work of literary-historical excavation in 1982, through his ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Black American Cinema

    Edited by Manthia Diawara ...
    Series series AFI Film Readers
    This is the first major collection of criticism on Black American cinema. From the pioneering work of Oscar Micheaux and Wallace Thurman to the Hollywood success of Spike Lee, Black American filmmakers have played a remarkable role in the development of the American film, both independent and mainstream.In this volume, the work of early Black filmmakers is given serious attention for the first ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature

    Edited by William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, Trudier Harris ...
    This abridgement of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature will make the entries of the greatest general interest available to a wider audience, providing the same calibre of scholarship and information as the original volume. The Concise collects more than 400 biographies (authors, critics, literary characters and historical figures) of both well-known figures and the lives and ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Invisibility Blues

    From Pop to Theory

    by Michele Wallace ...
    First published in 1990, Michele Wallace’s Invisibility Blues is widely regarded as a landmark in the history of black feminism.Wallace’s considerations of the black experience in America include recollections of her early life in Harlem; a look at the continued underrepresentation of black voices in politics, media, and culture; and the legacy of such figures as Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Cade ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Routledge Introduction to African American Literature

    by D. Quentin Miller ...
    Series series Routledge Introductions to American Literature
    The Routledge Introduction to African American Literature considers the key literary, political, historical and intellectual contexts of African American literature from its origins to the present, and also provides students with an analysis of the most up-to-date literary trends and debates in African American literature. This accessible and engaging guide covers a variety of essential topics ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Approaches to Teaching the Plays of August Wilson

    Edited by Sandra G. Shannon, Sandra L. Richards ...
    Series Book 140 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    The award-winning playwright August Wilson used drama as a medium to write a history of twentieth-century America through the perspectives of its black citizenry. In the plays of his Pittsburgh Cycle, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences and The Piano Lesson, Wilson mixes African spirituality with the realism of the American theater and puts African American storytelling and performance ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

  • In Search of a Beautiful Freedom

    New and Selected Essays

    by Farah Jasmine Griffin ...
    **Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by The MillionsLively, insightful writings on Black music, feminism, literature, and events from a “masterful critic and master teacher” (Walton Muyumba, Boston Globe).**In Search of a Beautiful Freedom brings together the best work from Farah Jasmine Griffin’s rich forays on music, Black feminism, literature, the crises of Hurricane Katrina and COVID-19, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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