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Black Theatre : Ritual Performance In The African Diaspora by Paul Carter Harrison, Victor Leo Walker II and Gus Edwards is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Generating a new understanding of the past--as well as a vision for the future--this path-breaking volume contains essays written by playwrights, scholars, and critics that analyze African American theatre as it is practiced today. Even as they acknowledge that Black experience is not monolithic, these contributors argue provocatively and persuasively for a Black consciousness that creates a culturally specific theatre. This theatre, rooted in an African mythos, offers ritual rather than realism; it transcends the specifics of social relations, reaching toward revelation. The ritual performance that is intrinsic to Black theatre renews the community; in Paul Carter Harrison's words, it "reveals the Form of Things Unknown" in a way that "binds, cleanses, and heals."

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Author

Paul Carter Harrison, Victor Leo Walker II and Gus Edwards

Publisher

Eurospan, Temple University Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9786612047220

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Fiction, Science