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Prefiguring Postblackness - Cultural Memory, Drama, and the African American Freedom Struggle of the 1960s (Hardcover)
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Prefiguring Postblackness - Cultural Memory, Drama, and the African American Freedom Struggle of the 1960s (Hardcover)
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Prefiguring Postblackness explores the tensions between cultural
memory of the African American freedom struggle and representations
of African American identity staged in five plays between 1959 and
1969 during the civil rights era. Through close readings of the
plays, their popular and African American print media reviews, and
the cultural context in which they were produced, Carol Bunch Davis
shows how these representations complicate narrow ideas of
blackness, which often limit the freedom struggle era to Martin
Luther King's nonviolent protest and cast Malcolm X's black
nationalism as undermining the civil rights movement's advances.
These five plays strategically revise the rhetoric,
representations, ideologies, and iconography of the African
American freedom struggle, subverting its dominant narrative. This
revision critiques racial uplift ideology's tenets of civic and
moral virtue as a condition of African American full citizenship.
The dramas also reimagine the Black Arts movement's restrictive
notions of black authenticity as a condition of racial identity,
and their staged representations construct a counter-narrative to
cultural memory of the freedom struggle during that very era. In
their use of a ""postblack ethos"" to enact African American
subjectivity, the plays envision black identity beyond the quest
for freedom, anticipating what blackness might look like when it
moves beyond the struggle. The plays under discussion range from
the canonical (Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun and Amiri
Baraka's Dutchman) to celebrated, yet understudied works (Alice
Childress's Wine in the Wilderness, Howard Sackler's The Great
White Hope, and Charles Gordone's No Place to Be Somebody).
Finally, Davis discusses recent revivals, showing how these 1960s
plays shape dimensions of modern drama well beyond the decade of
their creation.
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