Contemporary African American Theater
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A01=Nilgun Anadolu-Okur
African American
African American Culture
African American Drama
African American protest literature
Afrocentric dramatic methodology
Amiri Baraka
anti-Eurocentrism studies
arts
Author_Nilgun Anadolu-Okur
black
Black Arts
Black Arts Movement
Black Arts Repertory Theater
Black Power era theater
Black Revolutionary Artist
Black Theater Movement
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charles
Charles Fuller
civil rights drama
company
cultural identity performance
drama
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European Theatrical Forms
Free Southern Theater
fuller
Hantu
Human Suffering
Korean Folk Music
Lafayette Theatre
larry
Mass Art
Maulana Karenga
movement
Neal's Essay
negro
Negro Ensemble Company
Nguzo Saba
Ntozake Shange
NTU
Soldier's Play
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415883245
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 05 May 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Black Arts Movement was sparked by the Civil Rights movement and the urge to produce and revitalize functional, realistic, and holistic symbols to express African American creativity. When Larry Neal began his quest for a new dramatic form to epitomize African American self-determination he laid the foundation upon which his friends and compatriots-Amiri Baraka and Charles Fuller-would build. Expressing their individual protests through their writings, these artists soon united in their attack against Eurocentrism, which traditionally minimized or neglected the roles played by Africans and African Americans on the world stage. Their writings signaled a radical change in the form and content of African American writing, particularly drama.
In this insightful examination of African American cultural history, the author explores the heart of the dramatic imagination of African Americans during the turbulent years of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. The analysis of the works of these three important dramatists reveals the roots of an Afrocentric approach to the theater, and introduces a new methodology for exploring Afrocentrism that is particularly suited to classes in African American drama and literature.?
