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Collusions of Fact and Fiction : Performing Slavery in the Works of Suzan-Lori Parks and Kara Walker
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Collusions of Fact and Fiction : Performing Slavery in the Works of Suzan-Lori Parks and Kara Walker / Ilka Saal.
ISBN
9781609387792
9781609387785
Publication
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2021]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©[2021]
Physical Description
1 online resource (272 pages).
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Summary
"Collusions of Fact and Fiction is the first book-length study in the field to discuss the works of Suzan-Lori Parks and Kara Walker in conjunction with each other and to establish them as exemplary for a larger generational shift in how late twentieth century African American artists have been addressing the histories and legacies of New World slavery"-- Provided by publisher.
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Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Series
Studies in theatre history and culture
Contents
Fictions of history and historiopoetic performances of the past
Digging, rep & rev-ing, faking: Suzan-Lori Parks's historiopoetic praxis
A sidelong glance at history: unreliable narration and the silhouette as blickmaschine in Kara Walker
Stereotypes and theatricality: (Re)staging Black Venus
Coda: wither historiopoiesis?
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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