- 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
- Uniform Title
- Black performance and cultural criticism.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: 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 -- Conclusion: Beyond incarceration.
- ISBN
- 9780814214930
- 0814214932
- 0814258565
- 9780814258569
- 9780814282595 (canceled/invalid)
- 0814282598 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022034968
- OCLC
- YBP 2022034968
- 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
Black performance and cultural criticism.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.