Performing blackness : enactments of African-American modernism

Author(s)

• Benston, Kimberly W.

Bibliographic Information

Performing blackness : enactments of African-American modernism

Kimberly W. Benston

Routledge, 2000

• : pbk

Note

"Transferred to digital printing 2005"--T.p. verso

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Performing Blackness offers a challenging interpretation of black cultural expression since the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Exploring drama, music, poetry, sermons, and criticism, Benston offers an exciting meditation on modern black performance's role in realising African-American aspirations for autonomy and authority. Artists covered include: * John Coltrane * Ntozake Shange * Ed Bullins * Amiri Baraka * Adrienne Kennedy * Michael Harper. Performing Blackness is an exciting contribution to the ongoing debate about the vitality and importance of black culture.

Table of Contents

Prologue 1. Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Drama and the Quest for Community 2. Blow into the Freezing Night: Expressive Agency in Coltrane and the Coltrane poem 3. Find the Self, Then Kill it: Scripts and Scores of Self-Enactment 4. I Was Myself Within the Circle: Vernacular and Critical Paradigms of Expressive Agency Epilogue

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BC06060579
• ISBN:
  • 9780415009492
• LCCN: 99054173
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 386 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 700.8996073
  • LCC : PS153.N5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : American literature -- African-American authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Performing arts -- United States -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Modernism (Literature) -- United States
  • LCSH : African-Americans in literature
  • LCSH : African-American arts