Deanna Downes

Towards A Queer Black Feminist Theatre Aesthetic:

Black American Theater By Three Black Female Playwrights In The Years 1915-1920

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Black women playwrights in particular have ensured its [Black culture's] survival through creating performance pieces that reflexively evaluate their life experiences" (Sunni-Ali). This book is an analysis of three, queer, black female playwrights and their plays - Mary Powell Burrill, "They That Sit in Darkness"; Angelina Weld Grimké, "Rachel" and Alice Dunbar Nelson, "Mine Eyes Have Seen" - from the early twentieth century who did just that. I am interested in the reflexive analysis of black life in America that their plays offered their audiences. I am interested in how these plays reached black audiences - their manner of disbursement and performance - in magazine publications such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's "The Crisis" and Margaret Sanger's "The Birth Control Review". I am interested in how the form they created can be a model for creating and identifying a contemporary queer black feminist theater aesthetic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9783330055933
• ISBN-10: 3330055936
• Artikelnr.: 47985417

Autorenporträt

Deanna Downes, Ph.D., M.F.A. est une chercheuse-artiste. Ses recherches portent sur la redécouverte du travail de trois femmes noires dramaturges dans les années 1915-1920, et sur leur identification en tant que premières praticiennes d'une esthétique théâtrale féministe noire et queer. Son travail se concentre sur la réimagination et la radicalisation du processus, de la production et de la performance au sein de la communauté.