Aristotle and Black Drama : A Theater of Civil Disobedience /
Civil disobedience has a tattered history in the American story. Described by Martin Luther King Jr. as both moral reflection and political act, the performance of civil disobedience in the face of unjust laws is also, the author of this book argues, a deeply artistic practice. Modern parallels to K...
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Waco, Texas :
Baylor University Press,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- 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 God's 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
- Civil disobedience, truth and reconciliation, 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.
