African American Performance and Theater History

The Device of Race: An Introduction, Harry J. Elam, Jr.PART I: SOCIAL PROTEST AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION 1. Uncle Tom's Women, Judith Williams2. Political Radicalism and Artistic Innovation in the Works of Lorraine Hansberry, Margaret B. Wilkerson3. The Black Arts Movement: Performance, Neo-Orality, and the Destruction of the "White Thing", Mike Sell4. Beyond a Liberal Audience, William SonnegaPART II: CULTURAL TRADITIONS, CULTURAL MEMORY, AND PERFORMANCE 5. Deep Skin: Reconstructing Congo Square, Joseph R. Roach6. "Calling on the Spirit": The Performativity of Black Women's Faith in the Baptist Church Spritual Traditions and Its Radical Possibilities for Resistance, Telia U. Anderson7. The Chitlin Circuit, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.8. Audience and Africanisms in August Wilson's Dramaturgy: A Case of Study, Sandra G. Shannon...