Author: Langston HughesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Gospel plays, operas, and later dramatic works
Author: Langston HughesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Gospel plays, operas and later dramatic works
Author: Langston HughesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Gospel plays, operas, and later dramatic works
Author: Langston HughesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Gospel plays, operas, and later dramatic works
Author: Langston HughesPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826214775
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
The sixteen volumes are published with the goal that Hughes pursued throughout his lifetime: making his books available to the people. Each volume will include a biographical and literary chronology by Arnold Rampersad, as well as an introduction by a Hughes scholar lume introductions will provide contextual and historical information on the particular work.
Gospel Plays, Operas, and Later Dramatic Works
Author: Langston HughesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Sanctuary
Author: Nicole A. Waligora-DavisPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199708568
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In 2005, hurricane Katrina and its aftermath starkly revealed the continued racial polarization of America. Disproportionately impacted by the ravages of the storm, displaced black victims were often characterized by the media as "refugees." The characterization was wrong-headed, and yet deeply revealing. Sanctuary: African Americans and Empire traces the long history of this and related terms, like alien and foreign, a rhetorical shorthand that has shortchanged black America for over 250 years. In tracing the language and politics that have informed debates about African American citizenship, Sanctuary in effect illustrates the historical paradox of African American subjecthood: while frequently the target of legislation (slave law, the Black Codes, and Jim Crow), blacks seldom benefited from the actions of the state. Blackness helped to define social, cultural, and legal aspects of American citizenship in a manner that excluded black people themselves. They have been treated, rather, as foreigners in their home country. African American civil rights efforts worked to change this. Activists and intellectuals demanded equality, but they were often fighting for something even more fundamental: the recognition that blacks were in fact human beings. As citizenship forced acknowledgement of the humanity of African Americans, it thus became a gateway to both civil and human rights. Waligora-Davis shows how artists like Langston Hughes underscored the power of language to define political realities, how critics like W.E.B. Du Bois imagined democratic political strategies, and how they and other public figures have used their writing as a forum to challenge the bankruptcy of a social economy in which the value of human life is predicated on race and civil identity.
Encyclopedia of American Drama
Author: Jackson R. BryerPublisher: Infobase Learning
ISBN: 1438140762
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 2466
Book Description
Provides a comprehensive guide to American dramatic literature, from its origins in the early days of the nation to American classics such as Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Thornton Wilder's Our Town to the groundbreaking works of today's best writers.
Collected Works
Author: Langston HughesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780826214775
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950
Author: Langston HughesPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826213402
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The sixteen volumes are published with the goal that Hughes pursued throughout his lifetime: making his books available to the people. Each volume will include a biographical and literary chronology by Arnold Rampersad, as well as an introduction by a Hughes scholar lume introductions will provide contextual and historical information on the particular work.
The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre
Author: Harvey YoungPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009359584
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
This new edition provides an expanded, comprehensive history of African American theatre, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Including discussions of slave rebellions on the national stage, African Americans on Broadway, the Harlem Renaissance, African American women dramatists, and the New Negro and Black Arts movements, the Companion also features fresh chapters on significant contemporary developments, such as the influence of the Black Lives Matter movement, the mainstream successes of Black Queer Drama and the evolution of African American Dance Theatre. Leading scholars spotlight the producers, directors, playwrights, and actors who have fashioned a more accurate appearance of Black life on stage, revealing the impact of African American theatre both within the United States and around the world. Addressing recent theatre productions in the context of political and cultural change, it invites readers to reflect on where African American theatre is heading in the twenty-first century.