Contemporary African American Theater Afrocentricity in the Works of Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka, and Charles Fuller
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Sprache:Englisch
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
05.05.2011
Verlag
Taylor & FrancisSeitenzahl
236
Maße (L/B/H)
21.6/14/1.3 cm
Gewicht
303 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-415-88324-5
The Black Arts Movement was sparked by the Civil Rights movement and the urge to produce and revitalize functional, realistic, and holistic symbols to express African American creativity. When Larry Neal began his quest for a new dramatic form to epitomize African American self-determination he laid the foundation upon which his friends and compatriots-Amiri Baraka and Charles Fuller-would build. Expressing their individual protests through their writings, these artists soon united in their attack against Eurocentrism, which traditionally minimized or neglected the roles played by Africans and African Americans on the world stage. Their writings signaled a radical change in the form and content of African American writing, particularly drama.
In this insightful examination of African American cultural history, the author explores the heart of the dramatic imagination of African Americans during the turbulent years of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. The analysis of the works of these three important dramatists reveals the roots of an Afrocentric approach to the theater, and introduces a new methodology for exploring Afrocentrism that is particularly suited to classes in African American drama and literature.?
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