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Theatre and Race Harvey Young

Theatre and Race By Harvey Young

Theatre and Race by Harvey Young


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Summary

The theatre has always been a place where conceptions of race and racism have been staged, shared and perpetuated. Harvey Young introduces key ideas about race, before tracing its relationship with theatre and performance - from Ancient Athens to the present day.

Theatre and Race Summary

Theatre and Race by Harvey Young

The theatre has always been a place where conceptions of race and racism have been staged, shared and perpetuated. Harvey Young introduces key ideas about race, before tracing its relationship with theatre and performance - from Ancient Athens to the present day.

Theatre and Race Reviews

An enjoyable book that is easy to follow and offers an interesting, jargon-free, account of a wide range of complex issues. - Lynette Goddard, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

About Harvey Young

Harvey Young is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Northwestern University, USA. He is the author of Embodying Black Experience, editor of The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre and co-editor of Performance in the Borderlands and Reimagining A Raisin in the Sun: Four New Plays.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface.- 1. Race as Theatre.- 2. Racializing the Other in.- the Classical Era.- 3. Cultural Anxieties in the Elizabethan Period.- 4. Blackface.- 5. Other Faces.- 6. Colorblind and Color Conscious Casting.- 7. Conclusion: Post-race Theatre.- Further.- Reading.- Index.- Acknowledgements.

Additional information

GOR005982600
9780230390966
023039096X
Theatre and Race by Harvey Young
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20130524
96
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