{"product_id":"african-american-theatre-an-historical-and-critical-analysis-cambridge-studies-in-american-theatre-and-drama-series-number-1-0521465850","title":"African American Theatre: An Historical and Critical Analysis (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama, Series Number 1)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0521465850\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hay, Samuel A.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA landmark work in the study of Black theater and drama, African American Theatre offers the first comprehensive history of a major cultural phenomenon until now too often neglected. In this fast-paced investigation, Hay seeks out the origins of Black theater in social protest, as envisioned by W.E.B. Dubois, and as a formal branch of arts theater. Divided between these opposing forces--the activist and the artistic--Black theater, Hay argues, faced conflicts of identity whose traces still haunt the medium today. African American Theatre thus offers a means of locating Black theater in the larger context of American theater and in the continuum of African American history from the nineteenth century to the present--and in doing so offers a profile of dramatic expression shaped and scarred by the forces of repression, of self-affirmation, and of subversion. Sweeping in scope, original in approach and provocatively written, this important book mines the origins and influences directing Black theater, while charting a course for its future survival.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51904465699104,"sku":"NEW0521465850","price":85.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71_bVmKMByL.jpg?v=1782185802","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/african-american-theatre-an-historical-and-critical-analysis-cambridge-studies-in-american-theatre-and-drama-series-number-1-0521465850","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}