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Harry J. Elam is the Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities, and the Freeman-Thornton Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. He is author of Taking it to the Streets: The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka; The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson, winner of the Errol Hill Award; and co-editor of African American Performance and Theater History: A Critical Reader; Colored Contradictions: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Drama; The Fire This Time: African American Plays for the New Millennium and Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Performance and Popular Culture. His articles have appeared in American Drama, Modern Drama, Theatre Journal, Text and Performance Quarterly as well as journals in Israel, Belgium, Poland and Taiwan and also in several critical anthologies. Douglas A. Jones, Jr. is Cotsen Fellow in the Princeton Society of Fellows at

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Introduction Section I: The New Black Family Bulrusher Good Goods Section II: (Post-) Blackness by Non-Black Playwrights The Shipment Satellites Section III: The Distant Present: History, Mythology, and Sexuality . . . And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi Antebellum Section IV: Re-Imagining/Re-Engaging Africa In the Continuum Black Diamond

The Methuen Drama Book of PostBlack Plays

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      Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 06/12/2012
      ISBN13: 9781408173824, 978-1408173824
      ISBN10: 1408173824
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Harry J. Elam is the Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities, and the Freeman-Thornton Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. He is author of Taking it to the Streets: The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka; The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson, winner of the Errol Hill Award; and co-editor of African American Performance and Theater History: A Critical Reader; Colored Contradictions: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Drama; The Fire This Time: African American Plays for the New Millennium and Black Cultural Traffic: Crossroads in Performance and Popular Culture. His articles have appeared in American Drama, Modern Drama, Theatre Journal, Text and Performance Quarterly as well as journals in Israel, Belgium, Poland and Taiwan and also in several critical anthologies. Douglas A. Jones, Jr. is Cotsen Fellow in the Princeton Society of Fellows at

      Table of Contents
      Introduction Section I: The New Black Family Bulrusher Good Goods Section II: (Post-) Blackness by Non-Black Playwrights The Shipment Satellites Section III: The Distant Present: History, Mythology, and Sexuality . . . And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi Antebellum Section IV: Re-Imagining/Re-Engaging Africa In the Continuum Black Diamond

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