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Preaching the blues : black feminist performance in lynching plays
- Title
- Preaching the blues : black feminist performance in lynching plays / Maisha S. Akbar.
- Author
- Akbar, Maisha S.
- Publication
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2020.
- ©2020
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- Description
- ix, 137 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Preaching the Blues: Black Feminist Performance in Lynching Plays examines several lynching plays to foreground black women's performances as non-normative subjects who challenge white supremacist ideology. Maisha S. Akbar re-maps the study of lynching drama by examining plays that are contingent upon race-based settings in black households versus white households. She also discusses performances of lynching plays at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the South, and reviews lynching plays closely tied to black school campuses. By focusing on current examples and impacts of lynching plays in the public sphere, this book grounds this historical form of theatre in the present day with depth and relevance. Of interest to scholars and students of both general Theatre and Performance studies, and of African American Theatre and Drama, Preaching the Blues foregrounds the importance of black feminist artists in lynching culture and interdisciplinary scholarship"--
- Subjects
- American drama > Women authors
- American drama > African American authors
- 1900-1999
- Lynching in literature
- American drama > Women authors > History and criticism
- African Americans in literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Black author
- American drama > 20th century > History and criticism
- American drama > African American authors > History and criticism
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- A blueswoman matters: black women's feminisms in anti-lynching plays -- Saving white face: examining anti-lynching plays set in white households -- Sketches from a black feminist professor's notebook: staging lynching plays at an historically black college and university (HBCU) in the South.
- Call Number
- Sc D 20-6
- ISBN
- 9781138479616
- 1138479616
- LCCN
- 2019029777
- OCLC
- 1124797290
- Author
- Akbar, Maisha S., author.
- Title
- Preaching the blues : black feminist performance in lynching plays / Maisha S. Akbar.
- Publisher
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 20-6