A beautiful pageant : African American theatre, drama, and performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1927, David Krasner

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A beautiful pageant : African American theatre, drama, and performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1927, David Krasner

Title remainder

African American theatre, drama, and performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1927

Statement of responsibility

David Krasner

Instantiates

• A beautiful pageant : African American theatre, drama, and performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1927

Publication

• New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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volume

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nc

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rdacarrier

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text

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txt

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rdacontent

Contents

• Wages of culture: Alain Locke and the folk dramas of Georgia Douglas Johnson and Willis Richardson
• PART III. 1918-1927
• "In the whirlwind and the storm": Marcus Garvey and the performance of black nationalism
• Whose role is it, anyway?: Charles Gilpin and the Harlem renaissance
• "What constitutes a race drama and how may we know it when we find it?": the little theatre movement and the black public sphere
• Shuffle along and the quest for nostalgia: black musicals of the 1920s
• Conclusion:
• End of "butter side up."
• African American performance in the Harlem renaissance
• PART I. 1910-1918
• Men in black and white: race and masculinity in the heavyweight title fight of 1910
• Exoticism, dance, and racial myths: modern dance and the class divide in the choreography of Aida Overton Walker and Ethel Waters
• "Pageant is the thing": black nationalism and The star of Ethiopia
• PART II. BLACK DRAMA
• Walter Benjamin and the lynching play: mourning and allegory in Angelina Weld Grimké's Rachel
• Migration, fragmentation, and identity: Zora Neale Hurston's Color struck and the geography of the Harlem renaissance

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25 cm.

Edition

1st ed.

Extent

xii, 370 p., [16] p. of plates

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9780312295905

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(hbk.)

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2002025109

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unmediated

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n

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ill.

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99192029060001161

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• (OCoLC)49260895
• (OCoLC)ocm49260895