Blueprints for a Black Federal Theatre Paperback: 81 (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 81) - Softcover

Fraden

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052156560X ISBN 13: 9780521565608

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Blueprints for a Black Federal Theatre, 1935–1939 focuses on the struggles of various groups of black and white critics, audiences, and artists to define what constituted authentic, properly representative African American art in the theatre of the 1930s.

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Críticas

"Fraden's active yet balanced voice makes the work approachable for the casual reader yet her meticulous exploration of cultural and political frictions inside and beyond the project represents a significant contribution to the study of Negro FT making it required reading for any serious scholar of not only the Federal Theatre Project but of the American theatre scene of the 1930's." Theatre Studies, Vol. 41

"This major work is complex and scholarly. A critical and historical analysis of the purpose, plays, audiences and actors of the Federal Theatre of 1935-39, Blueprints for a Black Federal Theatre is compelling....useful to theatre students (and others) because of the rich and copious notes." Glenda E. Gill, Theatre Survey

"Rena Fraden's 'Blueprint for a Black Federal Theatre' will also be a useful textbook for teaching African American theatre history. Fraden has distinguished her work from that of her major forerunners....'Blueprint' substantially enhance[s] our understanding of African American theatre and will enliven classroom discussions with the cogent and timely arguments [it] present[s]." Joni jones, Drama Review

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Blue Print for a Black Federal Theatre is compelling...Fraden powerfully states that no group in America has been so invidiously represented onstage and so relentlessly prevented from working backstage.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 052156560X
• ISBN 13: 9780521565608
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 268