Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism
Author:   Kimberley W. Benston
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780415009485


Pages:   400
Publication Date:   18 May 2000
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Kimberley W. Benston
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.910kg
ISBN:  

9780415009485


ISBN 10:   0415009480
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   18 May 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Prologue 1. Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Drama and the Quest for Community 2. Blow into the Freezing Night: Expressive Agency in Coltrane and the Coltrane poem 3. Find the Self, Then Kill it: Scripts and Scores of Self-Enactment 4. I Was Myself Within the Circle: Vernacular and Critical Paradigms of Expressive Agency Epilogue

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"...""[Benson] doesn't igore the women of the movement. He provides piercing insights into the work of Shange and Kennedy. This is wide-ranging fare, spanning theatre, music, sermons, poetry, autobiography, and criticism.."""


... [Benson] doesn't igore the women of the movement. He provides piercing insights into the work of Shange and Kennedy. This is wide-ranging fare, spanning theatre, music, sermons, poetry, autobiography, and criticism.. <br>


Author Information

Kimberley Benston is Kenan Professor of English at Haverford College. He is the author of Baraka: The Renegade and the Mask and editor of Speaking of You: The Vision of Ralph Ellison.

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