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Mahala, Macelle R.

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Better recognize: African American theatre as a politics of cultural practice.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Better recognize: African American theatre as a politics of cultural practice./
Author:	Mahala, Macelle R.
Description:	207 p.
Notes:	Advisers: Michal Kobialka; Lou Bellamy.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-05A.
Subject:	Black Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3263120
ISBN:	9780549018681

Better recognize: African American theatre as a politics of cultural practice.
Mahala, Macelle R.

Better recognize: African American theatre as a politics of cultural practice. - 207 p.

Advisers: Michal Kobialka; Lou Bellamy.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2007.

This dissertation looks at a few specific moments in the careers of four acclaimed African American playwrights; Ed Bullins, Kia Corthron, Suzan-Lori Parks, and August Wilson. I argue that these playwrights each engage in a politics of "cultural recognition," a term associated with the effort towards the acknowledgment and political parity of the distinct cultural groups that make up a multiethnic civil society. I contend that cultural recognition is enacted in an efficacious sense in each of these playwright's works---that is, each playwright brings the communal and culturally specific aspects of their individual identities explicitly to bear in their participation in American theatre in ways that combat current trends of neoliberalism, which seeks the erasure of social collectivity and disallows the acknowledgement of the continued experience and historical legacy of racism and white supremacy.

ISBN: 9780549018681Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017673
Black Studies.

Better recognize: African American theatre as a politics of cultural practice.
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520 $a This dissertation looks at a few specific moments in the careers of four acclaimed African American playwrights; Ed Bullins, Kia Corthron, Suzan-Lori Parks, and August Wilson. I argue that these playwrights each engage in a politics of "cultural recognition," a term associated with the effort towards the acknowledgment and political parity of the distinct cultural groups that make up a multiethnic civil society. I contend that cultural recognition is enacted in an efficacious sense in each of these playwright's works---that is, each playwright brings the communal and culturally specific aspects of their individual identities explicitly to bear in their participation in American theatre in ways that combat current trends of neoliberalism, which seeks the erasure of social collectivity and disallows the acknowledgement of the continued experience and historical legacy of racism and white supremacy.
520 $a In order to better understand precisely how African American theatrical practices constitute forms of cultural recognition within the public sphere, I examine Ed Bullins' work with Black Arts Movement during the 1960's and 1970's, August Wilson's interaction with the regional theatre system throughout the development and production of his 20th century cycle in the 1980's and 1990's, Kia Corthron's project of writing plays for specific African American communities during the 1990's and 2000's, and Suzan-Lori Parks' deconstruction of the national racial and historical mythologies in The America Play (1993), Venus (1996), and Topdog/Underdog (2001). Because each of these playwrights has been seminal is shaping the field of African American theatre and performance, looking comparatively at their work reveals distinct methods of theatrical production which have complicated, shaped, and questioned racial and cultural formation in America over the past four decades.
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