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OverviewA few weeks prior to the submission deadline for this volume of Theatre Symposium, the murder of George Floyd by officers of the Minneapolis Police Department sparked a movement for racial justice that reverberated at every level of US society. At predominantly and historically white academic institutions (including Theatre Symposium and its parent organization, the Southeastern Theatre Conference) leaders were compelled, as perhaps never before, to account for the role of systematic racism in the foundation and perpetuation of their organizations. While the present volume’s theme of “Theatre and Race” was announced in the waning days of 2019, the composition and editing of the issue’s essays were undertaken almost entirely within the transformed cultural and professional landscape of 2020. Throughout its twenty-nine years of publication, Theatre Symposium’s pages have included many excellent essays whose authors have deployed theories of race as an analytical framework, and (less often) treated BIPOC-centered art and artists as subject. The intent of the current editors in conceiving this issue was to center such subjects and theorizations, a goal that has since taken on a more widely recognized urgency. Taken together, these twelve essays represent a wide range of scholarly responses to the theme of “theatre and race.” The fact that there is so much to say on the topic, from so many different perspectives, is a sign of how profoundly theatre practices have been—and continue to be—shaped by racial discourses and their material manifestations. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Andrew Gibb , Casey Avaunt , Gregory S. Carr , Soyica Diggs ColbertPublisher: The University of Alabama Press Imprint: The University of Alabama Press Weight: 0.134kg ISBN: 9780817370169ISBN 10: 0817370161 Pages: 176 Publication Date: 05 April 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationAndrew Gibb is area head for Theatre History, Theory, and Criticism in the School of Theatre and Dance at Texas Tech University. He is author of Californios, Anglos, and the Performance of Oligarchy in the U.S. West and has published work in Theatre History Studies, New English Theatre Journal, Latin American Theatre Review, Theatre Symposium, and Texas Theatre Journal. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |