- Description
- 1 online resource (xv, 254 pages) : illustrations.
- Uniform Title
- Aristotle and black drama (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Aristotle and black drama (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-243) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2012043682
- OCLC
- ssj0000916644
- Author
Rankine, Patrice D.
- Title
Aristotle and black drama [electronic resource] : a theater of civil disobedience / Patrice D. Rankine.
- Imprint
Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2013]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-243) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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