Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- 1 Slavery, performance, and the design of African American theatre
- 2 Slave rebellions on the national stage
- 3 Early black Americans on Broadway
- 4 Drama in the Harlem Renaissance
- 5 The Negro Little Theatre Movement
- 6 African American women dramatists, 1930–1960
- 7 Amiri Baraka and the Black Arts Movement
- 8 Fragmented musicals and 1970s soul aesthetic
- 9 Spectacles of whiteness from Adrienne Kennedy to Suzan-Lori Parks
- 10 African American performance and community engagement
- 11 Women playwrights who cross cultural borders
- 12 African Diaspora drama
- 13 Black theatre in the age of Obama
- Further reading
- Index
- References
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- 1 Slavery, performance, and the design of African American theatre
- 2 Slave rebellions on the national stage
- 3 Early black Americans on Broadway
- 4 Drama in the Harlem Renaissance
- 5 The Negro Little Theatre Movement
- 6 African American women dramatists, 1930–1960
- 7 Amiri Baraka and the Black Arts Movement
- 8 Fragmented musicals and 1970s soul aesthetic
- 9 Spectacles of whiteness from Adrienne Kennedy to Suzan-Lori Parks
- 10 African American performance and community engagement
- 11 Women playwrights who cross cultural borders
- 12 African Diaspora drama
- 13 Black theatre in the age of Obama
- Further reading
- Index
- References
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