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Books in the Black Performance and Cultural Criticism series

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  • - Music and Masculinity in the Civil War's "gospel Army"
    by Johari Jabir
    £35.49 - 69.99

  • - The Culture of Uplift, Identity, and Politics in Black Musical Theater
    by Paula Marie Seniors
    £37.99

  • by Taylor Hagood
    £32.99

    Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers seeks to rescue the plays of eight black women, Marita Bonner, Mary P. Burrill, Thelma Duncan, Shirley Graham, Zora Neale Hurston, Georgia Douglas Johnson, May Miller, and Eulalie Spence, from obscurity. This volume is the first book-length treatment to address these plays and their authors exclusively rather than as part of a discussion of other African American playwrights from different eras. It is also one of the few to carry out an extensive discussion of secrecy's role in both literary representation and social interaction. Exploring secrecy from the standpoints of poststructuralist language theory and game theory as well as dramatic performance, Taylor Hagood argues that the secret--a thing visible for its very invisibility--is a fundamental cog in the machinery of society, employed as a tool for both oppression and subversion. The many facets of secrecy have been particularly salient in African American culture, informing everything from the Underground Railroad to the subtle coding of Signifying. Most devastatingly, people on both sides of the color line are caught within a web of secrecy that is the result of centuries of distrust, doubt, and fear, a fact that is powerfully manifest not only in these one-act plays but in the reader's/spectator's interactions with them.

  • - Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song
    by Tara T Green
    £30.49 - 121.99

  • - Black Masculinity in U.S. History and Literature, 1820-1945
     
    £32.99

    Fathers, Preachers, Rebels, Men: Black Masculinity in U.S. History and Literature, 1820-1945,edited by Timothy R. Buckner and Peter Caster, brings together scholars of history and literature focused on the lives and writing of black men during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the United States. The interdisciplinary study demonstrates the masculine character of cultural practices developed from slavery through segregation. Black masculinity embodies a set of contradictions, including an often mistaken threat of violence, the belief in its legitimacy, and the rhetorical union of truth and fiction surrounding slavery, segregation, resistance, and self-determination. The attention to history and literature is necessary because so many historical depictions of black men are rooted in fiction. The essays of this collection balance historical and literary accounts, and they join new descriptions of familiar figures such as Charles W. Chesnutt and W. E. B. Du Bois with the less familiar but critically important William Johnson and Nat Love. The 2008 election of Barack Obama is a tremendously significant event in the vexed matter of race in the United States. However, the racial subtext of recent radical political movements and the 2009 arrest of scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., demonstrate that the perceived threat posed by black masculinity to the nation's unity and vitality remains an alarming one in the cultural imagination.

  • - Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution
    by Professor Matt Richardson
    £30.49

  • - Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture
    by L H Stallings
    £35.49

  • - The Congo Tradition and the Politics of Blackness in Twentieth-Century Panama
    by Renee Alexander Craft
    £34.49

  • - Black Maternal Figures and the Politics of Transgression
    by Marlo D David
    £35.49

  • by Stacie Selmon McCormick
    £34.49 - 139.99

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