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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).