A01=Gordon Heath
African American memoir
African diaspora cultural history
American artists abroad
artistic exile narratives
arts and civil rights era context
Author_Gordon Heath
autobiographical reflections on race
biography of a stage professional
Black creative diaspora
Black stage actors history
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creative life in France
creative perseverance memoir
cross-cultural artistic identity
cultural diplomacy through the arts
cultural history through one life
dramatic arts training journey
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European modernist circles
expatriate artists in Europe
global Black intellectual circles
Harlem Renaissance legacy abroad
historic Black entertainers
international theater history
jazz age cultural figures
legacy of Black performers overseas
life in bohemian Paris
literary memoir of the arts
memoirs of creative professionals
mid-1900s arts movements
midcentury artistic communities
narrative of artistic independence
overlooked cultural pioneers
Paris literary and arts scene
performance studies biography
performing Shakespeare internationally
personal history of performance
personal narrative of resilience
postwar artistic migration
racial identity and performance
radio and stage entertainment history
reflections on fame and obscurity
remembrance of artistic communities
segregation-era life stories
stage and screen reflections
storytelling and self-reinvention
theater career autobiography
transatlantic cultural exchange
travel and artistic growth
twentieth-century cultural
twentieth-century performing arts
voice and performance craft
Product details
- ISBN 9781558490208
- Weight: 331g
- Dimensions: 145 x 223mm
- Publication Date: 14 Feb 1996
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This work presents the memoirs of Gordon Heath (1918-1991), an actor whose career spanned five decades on the stages of New York, London and Paris. He achieved prominence in 1945 for his starring role in Broadway's ""Deep are the Roots"", an exploration of American race-relations at the end of World War II. He went on to become part of the lively post-war Parisian expatriate artistic and literary community.
