TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rankine,Patrice D.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Aristotle and Black Drama: a Theater of Civil Disobedience 
SN  - 9781602584549
AV  - PS338.N4 R36 2013
U1  - 812.009/896073 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Waco, Texas
PB  - Baylor University Press
KW  - Aristotle
KW  - African American theater
KW  - History
KW  - Comparative literature
KW  - Modern and classical
KW  - Classicism in literature
KW  - Civil disobedience in literature
KW  - American drama
KW  - Classical influences
KW  - African American aesthetics
KW  - African American authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Civil disobedience as resistance to tradition and performance -- Classical origins of character and Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a negro, Electra, and Orestes -- The Oedipus story and the perfect play, or The gospel according to Rita Dove: The darker face of the earth and Sonata Mulattica: a life in five movements and a short play -- Racial intent and dramatic form: Eugene O'Neill's All Gods' chillun got wings and The Emperor Jones -- Aristotle's Spectacle and August Wilson's Spectacle character: Joe Turner's Come and gone -- Freedom songs and metaphors of healing: Eugene O'Neill's Mourning becomes Electra, Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the sun, and Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus and Topdog/Underdog -- Truth and reconciliation: civil disobedience and the cosmopolitan citizen: Charles Smith's The gospel according to James, Thomas Bradshaw's Mary, David Mamet's Race, and Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781602584549/
ER  -