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Aristotle and Black Drama a Theater of Civil Disobedience
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Aristotle and Black Drama [electronic resource] : a Theater of Civil Disobedience / Patrice D. Rankine.
ISBN
1602584540
9781602584549
1602584524
9781602584525 (hardback : acid-free paper)
Published
Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, 2013 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Description based on print version record.
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Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2013 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2013 Film, Theater and Performing Arts.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 15, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Civil disobedience as resistance to tradition and performance
Classical origins of character and Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a negro, Electra, and Orestes
The Oedipus story and the perfect play, or The gospel according to Rita Dove: The darker face of the earth and Sonata Mulattica: a life in five movements and a short play
Racial intent and dramatic form: Eugene O'Neill's All Gods' chillun got wings and The Emperor Jones
Aristotle's Spectacle and August Wilson's Spectacle character: Joe Turner's Come and gone
Freedom songs and metaphors of healing: Eugene O'Neill's Mourning becomes Electra, Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the sun, and Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus and Topdog/Underdog
Truth and reconciliation: civil disobedience and the cosmopolitan citizen: Charles Smith's The gospel according to James, Thomas Bradshaw's Mary, David Mamet's Race, and Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park.
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