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The healing stage : Black women, incarceration, and the art of transformation
- Title
- The healing stage : Black women, incarceration, and the art of transformation / Lisa Biggs.
- Author
- Biggs, Lisa (Actor and playwright)
- Publication
- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2022]
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Details
- Description
- x, 245 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Focusing on sites in the US and South Africa, Biggs follows four ensembles of currently and formerly incarcerated women and the teaching artists with whom they collaborate to investigate how performance-based arts projects both in prison and out can effect positive personal, social, and political change"--
- Series Statement
- Black performance and cultural criticism
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-233) and index.
- Contents
- Race, gender, crime, performance -- "She was no Rosa Parks" : a Black women's history of mass incarceration in the United States -- How to stage healing -- Bad bad bad bad bad bad woman : making theater in a Midwestern jail -- The pink dress -- Bring me my machine gun : the Medea Project in South Africa -- It has been my healing to tell the dirty truth -- Beyond incarceration.
- Call Number
- Sc E 23-826
- ISBN
- 9780814214930
- 0814214932
- 9780814258569
- 0814258565
- LCCN
- 2022034968
- OCLC
- 1314264168
- Author
- Biggs, Lisa (Actor and playwright), author.
- Title
- The healing stage : Black women, incarceration, and the art of transformation / Lisa Biggs.
- Publisher
- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2022]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Black performance and cultural criticism
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-233) and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 23-826