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Re-enacting race and history: Contemporary performances by five African-American women (Alice Childress, Ntozake Shange, Adrienne Kennedy, Suzan-Lori Parks).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Re-enacting race and history: Contemporary performances by five African-American women (Alice Childress, Ntozake Shange, Adrienne Kennedy, Suzan-Lori Parks)./
Author:	Rouse, Linda Anne.
Description:	175 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-12, Section: A, page: 4468.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-12A.
Subject:	Literature, American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3114950
ISBN:	0496624398

Re-enacting race and history: Contemporary performances by five African-American women (Alice Childress, Ntozake Shange, Adrienne Kennedy, Suzan-Lori Parks).
Rouse, Linda Anne.

Re-enacting race and history: Contemporary performances by five African-American women (Alice Childress, Ntozake Shange, Adrienne Kennedy, Suzan-Lori Parks). - 175 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-12, Section: A, page: 4468.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Bowling Green State University, 2003.

The purpose of this study was to examine performances written by five African-American women (Alice Childress, Ntozake Shange, Robbie McCauley, Adrienne Kennedy, and Suzan-Lori Parks) to examine each writer's technique to understand why these performances do what they do. Specifically, my examination proceeded from two organizing questions: What happens when African-American women use performance spaces to reenact and retell history from their perspectives? How are the representations of history and the attending legacies of exploitation, objectification, and racism altered when African-American women begin pulling at the threads of that history? I examined issues of identity, race, and history as these are created and performed within the various genres that comprise the range of theatre and performance styles and techniques, including realism, resistant performances, and postmodern performances. I believe that the contemporary performances artists I have examined in my dissertation use their challenging and compelling techniques to reenact the way we (their audiences and readers) think about race and history. Implicit in this reenactment is the intent to ask audiences to reconsider the ways in which they view history, race, and the African-American female subject. In the performances I have examined, each writer enables challenges to essentialism, universality, and the identities ascribed to people of color. Ultimately, I argue these choices, techniques, and performances lead to rethinking theatrical space, reexamining racism through contemporary performance techniques, and repositioning historical figures in order to achieve a full examination of how images such as the black woman' body and the hyper-sexualization of women of color are intertwined with history and race.

ISBN: 0496624398Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017657
Literature, American.

Re-enacting race and history: Contemporary performances by five African-American women (Alice Childress, Ntozake Shange, Adrienne Kennedy, Suzan-Lori Parks).
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