Book 1998
Resistance, Parody and Double Consciousness in African American Theatre, 1895-1919 (1998 Errol Hill Award Winner)
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Drama
- Theater - History & Criticism
- Performing Arts
- Textbooks
THE PURPOSE OF THIS WORK is to explore African American theatre as it existed from 1895 to 1910, with an emphasis on its resistance to racism, the emergence of parody, and the use of what W. E. B. Du Bois called "double consciousness" (1903:215).