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Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism

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About this book

Performing Blackness offers a challenging interpretation of black cultural expression since the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Exploring drama, music, poetry, sermons, and criticism, Benston offers an exciting meditation on modern black performance's role in realising African-American aspirations for autonomy and authority. Artists covered include: * John Coltrane* Ntozake Shange * Ed Bullins * Amiri Baraka * Adrienne Kennedy * Michael Harper.Performing Blackness is an exciting contribution to the ongoing debate about the vitality and importance of black culture.

About the Author

Kimberley Benston is Kenan Professor of English at Haverford College. He is the author of Baraka: The Renegade and the Mask and editor of Speaking of You: The Vision of Ralph Ellison.

Author Kimberley W. Benston
ISBN-13 9781135078317
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Publication Date 04/15/2013
Page Count 404 pages

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