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020 _a9781602584549
020 _a1602584540
020 _z9781602584525 (hardback : acid-free paper)
020 _z1602584524
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
050 0 0 _aPS338.N4
_bR36 2013
082 0 0 _a812.009/896073
_223
100 1 _aRankine, Patrice D.
245 1 0 _aAristotle and Black Drama
_h[electronic resource] :
_ba Theater of Civil Disobedience /
_cPatrice D. Rankine.
260 _aWaco, Texas :
_bBaylor University Press,
_c2013.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (pages cm)
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aAfrican American theater
_xHistory.
650 0 _aComparative literature
_xModern and classical.
650 0 _aClassicism in literature.
650 0 _aCivil disobedience in literature.
650 0 _aAmerican drama
_xClassical influences.
650 0 _aAfrican American aesthetics.
650 0 _aAmerican drama
_xAfrican American authors
_xHistory and criticism.
600 0 0 _aAristotle
_xInfluence.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781602584549/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c33125
_d33125