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- catalog abstract ""Performing Blackness offers a challenging interpretation of black cultural expression since the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Exploring drama, music, poetry, sermons, and criticism, Benston offers an exciting meditation on modern black performance's role in realizing African-American aspirations for autonomy and authority." "Artists covered include: Ntozake Shange, Ed Bullins, John Coltrane, Amiri Baraka, Adrienne Kennedy, and Michael Harper."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11385935.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Performing Blackness offers a challenging interpretation of black cultural expression since the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Exploring drama, music, poetry, sermons, and criticism, Benston offers an exciting meditation on modern black performance's role in realizing African-American aspirations for autonomy and authority." "Artists covered include: Ntozake Shange, Ed Bullins, John Coltrane, Amiri Baraka, Adrienne Kennedy, and Michael Harper."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [352]-373) and index.".
- catalog description "Prologue: performing blackness -- Will the circle be unbroken?: drama and the quest for communality -- Sighting blackness: mimesis and methexis in Black Arts theatrical theory -- Site-ing blackness: abjection and affirmation in modern black drama -- Blow into the freezing night: expressive agency in Coltrane and the Coltrane Poem -- Innovating blackness: praxis and passion in (late) Coltrane -- Renovating blackness: remembrance and revolution in the Coltrane Poem -- Find the self, then kill it: scripts and scores of self-enactment -- Sounding blackness: vision and voice in the performative poetics of Amiri Baraka -- Rehearsing blackness: spectre and spectacle in the theatrical prefaces of Adrienne Kennedy -- I was myself within the circle: vernacular and critical paradigms of expressive agency -- Improvising blackness: telling and testifying in the modern chant-sermon -- Re-calling blackness: recollection and response in contemporary black autocritography -- Epilogue: re:presenting blackness -- Coltrane Poems -- Sermon transcripts.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 386 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0415009480 (hbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0415009499 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Routledge,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "810.9/896073 21".
- catalog subject "African American arts.".
- catalog subject "African Americans Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog subject "African Americans in literature.".
- catalog subject "American literature 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American literature African American authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Modernism (Literature) United States.".
- catalog subject "PS153.N5 B45 2000".
- catalog subject "Performing arts United States History 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: performing blackness -- Will the circle be unbroken?: drama and the quest for communality -- Sighting blackness: mimesis and methexis in Black Arts theatrical theory -- Site-ing blackness: abjection and affirmation in modern black drama -- Blow into the freezing night: expressive agency in Coltrane and the Coltrane Poem -- Innovating blackness: praxis and passion in (late) Coltrane -- Renovating blackness: remembrance and revolution in the Coltrane Poem -- Find the self, then kill it: scripts and scores of self-enactment -- Sounding blackness: vision and voice in the performative poetics of Amiri Baraka -- Rehearsing blackness: spectre and spectacle in the theatrical prefaces of Adrienne Kennedy -- I was myself within the circle: vernacular and critical paradigms of expressive agency -- Improvising blackness: telling and testifying in the modern chant-sermon -- Re-calling blackness: recollection and response in contemporary black autocritography -- Epilogue: re:presenting blackness -- Coltrane Poems -- Sermon transcripts.".
- catalog title "Performing blackness : enactments of African-American modernism / Kimberly W. Benston.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".