The civil rights theatre movement in New York, 1939-1966 : staging freedom / Julie Burrell.
Burrell, Julie, author.
2019
PN2277.N5
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Title The civil rights theatre movement in New York, 1939-1966 : staging freedom / Julie Burrell.
Author Burrell, Julie, author.
ISBN 9783030121884 (electronic book)
3030121887 (electronic book)
9783030121877
3030121879
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Call Number PN2277.N5
Dewey Decimal Classification 792.09747/1
Summary This book argues that African American theatre in the twentieth century represented a cultural front of the civil rights movement. Highlighting the frequently ignored decades of the 1940s and 1950s, Burrell documents a radical cohort of theatre artists who became critical players in the fight for civil rights both onstage and offstage, between the Popular Front and the Black Arts Movement periods. The Civil Rights Theatre Movement recovers knowledge of little-known groups like the Negro Playwrights Company and reconsiders Broadway hits including Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, showing how theatre artists staged radically innovative performances that protested Jim Crow and U.S. imperialism amidst a repressive Cold War atmosphere. By conceiving of class and gender as intertwining aspects of racism, this book reveals how civil rights theatre artists challenged audiences to reimagine the fundamental character of American democracy.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed April 1, 2019).
Series Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history.
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783030121877
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Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Author; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; The Black Popular Front; Cold War-Civil Rights; Black Power Feminism; Overview; Bibliography; Chapter 2 The Negro People's Theatre and the Emergence of the Civil Rights Theatre Movement; The Negro People's Theatre and the Proletarian Turn; The Negro Playwrights Company and Big White Fog; The Broadway Production of Native Son; The American Negro Theatre and Natural Man; Bibliography; Chapter 3 "An American Dilemma": Dramas of the Returning Negro Soldier

The "Returning Negro Soldier Drama" as Race-Liberal TextsDeep Are the Roots and the Returning Negro Soldier; Jeb Returns to Dixie; The Negro Soldier and Northern Housing; Bibliography; Chapter 4 Rescripting the Negro Problem: The Cold War-Civil Rights Play; Black Feminism in the Cold War-Civil Rights Play; Ossie Davis's Alice in Wonder at the Elks Community Theatre; William Branch's A Medal for Willie and the Committee for the Negro in the Arts; Alice Childress's Trouble in Mind at the Greenwich Mews; Bibliography

Chapter 5 "To Be a Man": Progressive Masculinities in Lorraine Hansberry's Cold War-Civil Rights PlaysA Raisin in the Sun and Progressive Black Masculinity in the Civil Rights Movement; Les Blancs and the New Paternalism; Bibliography; Chapter 6 Alice Childress's Wedding Band and the Black Feminist Nation; Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White; Kinship in Wedding Band: A Love Story in Black; Confronting Racism: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White; Julia and Nelson on the Frontlines; Bibliography; Chapter 7 Epilogue; Bibliography; Index

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