Research Catalog

Title

Experiments in democracy : interracial and cross-cultural exchange in American theatre, 1912-1945 / edited by Cheryl Black and Jonathan Shandell.

Publication

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Black, Cheryl, 1954-
• Shandell, Jonathan

Description

vii, 306 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"Essays in "Experiments in Democracy" look at theatre groups, as well as individual playwrights and their works, to examine how theatre artists used performance to try to bridge America's persistent racial divide and sought strategies for bringing different communities and cultural traditions into the nation's broader cultural conversation"--

Series Statement

Theater in the Americas

Uniform Title

Theater in the Americas.

Alternative Title

Interracial and cross-cultural exchange in American theatre, 1912-1945

Subjects

• Theater and society
• Theater
• American drama
• Race relations in literature
• American drama > 20th century > History and criticism
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Race in the theater
• History
• Ethnicity in the theater
• United States
• Theater and society > United States > History > 20th century
• Minorities in literature
• Theater > United States > History > 20th century
• 1900-1999

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : Public laboratories of pluralism / Jonathan Shandell -- Trying on The yellow jacket : performing Chinese exclusion and assimilation (1912-28) / Ju Yon Kim -- Jazz, Jews, and modernism on Broadway : from Lady, be good! to Show boat (1924-27) / Stuart J. Hecht -- Reconfiguring race and citizenship : the Teatro Vernáculo of La Unión Martí-Maceo (1930-40) / Eric Mayer-García -- A cosmogony for the marginalized : Lynn Riggs, mythmaking, and multiracial-homosexual apologetics (1931-32) / W. Douglas Powers -- Moving the world toward brotherhood : representations of cultural "otherness" in the Theatre Union's Black pit (1935) / Cheryl Black and Anne Fletcher -- (Re)visioning Mexican intellectual and peasant life : Josefina Niggli's plays with the Carolina Playmakers (1936-38) / Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez -- The politics of Black masculinity in Theodore Browne's Natural man (1937) / Harry J. Elam Jr. -- Choreographing diversity and American experience : Myra Kinch and group, Federal Theatre Project (1937-39) / Margaret F. Savilonis -- Imagined democracy : the Federal Theatre Project performs (native) America (1938-39) / Elizabeth A. Osborne -- "Ethnic Americanism" versus isolationism : pluralistic antifascism in "Fun to be free" (1941) / Garrett Eisler -- "Spain...brought me back to America" : ghostings of other races in Paul Robesons's Othello and José Ferrer's Iago (1943) / Lisa Jackson-Schebetta -- Turning "negroes" into "people" onstage : Anna Lucasta in Harlem and on Broadway (1944) / Jonathan Shandell -- The stage door canteen : the American Theatre wing's experiment in integration (1942-45) / Andrea Nouryeh -- Afterword : American democracy : a work in progress / Cheryl Black.

Call Number

MWED 17-1976

ISBN

• 9780809334681
• 0809334682

LCCN

2015041537

OCLC

908376299

Title

Experiments in democracy : interracial and cross-cultural exchange in American theatre, 1912-1945 / edited by Cheryl Black and Jonathan Shandell.

Publisher

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Theater in the Americas

Theater in the Americas.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Black, Cheryl, 1954- editor.

Shandell, Jonathan, editor.

Research Call Number

MWED 17-1976

Sc E 16-1618