| Description |
1 online resource (166 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Theatre symposium ; volume 29 |
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Theatre symposium ; v. 29.
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| Contents |
Content warning -- Introduction / Andrew Gibb -- American theatre and its ongoing racial crisis / Soyica Diggs Colbert -- Living objects : How contemporary African American puppet artists "figure" race / Paulette Richards -- Past is precedent : Native survivance and cross-generational storytelling in Mary Kathryn Nagle's Sovereignty / Miriam Hahn Thomas -- Afro-Latinidad : Being Black and Latinx in theatre today / Daphnie Sicre -- Dream demurred : Interrogating whiteness in Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park / Gregory S. Carr -- Performing multiple meanings : The lion dance in Boston's Chinatown / Casey Avaunt -- Reifying whiteness in Cicely Hamilton's A Pageant of Great Women / Elise Robinson -- Artistic reparations / Troy L. Scarborough -- Breaking the shackles : Reshaping the stigma of stereotypes in character development / Shontelle Thrash -- The "Topsification" of Uncle Tom's Cabin / Christopher Corbo -- Slippery borders and mythic spaces : Race, class, and ressentiment in Lynn Nottage's Sweat / M. Scott Phillips -- True lies : The myth of color-blind casting and the silencing of the Black playwright in American theatre / LyaNisha R. Gonzalez |
| Summary |
"A few weeks prior to the submission deadline for this volume of Theatre Symposium, the murder of George Floyd by officers of the Minneapolis Police Department sparked a movement for racial justice that reverberated at every level of US society. At predominantly and historically white academic institutions (including Theatre Symposium and its parent organization, the Southeastern Theatre Conference) leaders were compelled, as perhaps never before, to account for the role of systematic racism in the foundation and perpetuation of their organizations. While the present volume's theme of 'Theatre and Race' was announced in the waning days of 2019, the composition and editing of the issue's essays were undertaken almost entirely within the transformed cultural and professional landscape of 2020. Throughout its twenty-nine years of publication, Theatre Symposium's pages have included many excellent essays whose authors have deployed theories of race as an analytical framework, and (less often) treated BIPOC-centered art and artists as subject. The intent of the current editors in conceiving this issue was to center such subjects and theorizations, a goal that has since taken on a more widely recognized urgency. Taken together, these twelve essays represent a wide range of scholarly responses to the theme of 'theatre and race.' The fact that there is so much to say on the topic, from so many different perspectives, is a sign of how profoundly theatre practices have been--and continue to be--shaped by racial discourses and their material manifestations."-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
"A publication of the Southeastern Theatre Conference." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Andrew Gibb is area head for Theatre History, Theory, and Criticism in the School of Theatre and Dance at Texas Tech University |
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Print version record |
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Race in the theater -- United States
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Ethnicity in the theater.
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Theater and society -- United States
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Ethnicity in the theater
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Race in the theater
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Theater and society
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United States
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Gibb, Andrew, 1969- editor.
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Bringardner, Chase, editor.
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Avaunt, Casey, author
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Carr, Gregory S., author
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Colbert, Soyica Diggs, 1979- author.
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Corbo, Christopher, author
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Gonzalez, LyaNisha R., author
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Phillips, M. Scott (Matthew Scott), author.
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Richards, Paulette, author.
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Robinson, Elise, author
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Scarborough, Troy L., author
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Southeastern Theatre Conference (U.S.), issuing body.
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SETC Theatre Symposium, issuing body
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| ISBN |
9780817393922 |
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0817393927 |
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