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T1 Theater and crisis: myth, memory, and racial reckoning in America, 1964-2020
A1 Rankine, Patrice D.
LA English
PP Amherst, Massachusetts
PB Lever Press
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1885599080
AB Racial reckoning was a recurrent theme throughout the summer of 2020, a response to George Floyd's murder and the unprecedented impact of COVID on marginalized groups. Theater and Crisis proposes a literary and theatrical study of how Floyd's killing could possibly happen in the aftermath of the Civil Rights era, and in the supposedly post-racial era following the election of Barack Obama. In the days and months following Floyd's death, there were nightly protests in streets across the United States and broader world. At the same time, theater performances were forced to shift online to video conferencing platforms and to find new ways to engage audiences. In each case, groups made shared meaning through storytelling and narrative, a liberatory process of myth-making and reverence that author Patrice D. Rankine calls "epiphanic encoding."
OP 291
NO Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-291)
CN PS338.B53
SN 978-1-64315-060-4
SN 1-64315-060-X
K1 American drama : African American authors : History and criticism
K1 African American theater : History : 20th century
K1 African American theater : History : 21st century
K1 Racial justice : United States : Drama : History and criticism
K1 Théâtre américain - Auteurs noirs américains - Histoire et critique
K1 Théâtre noir américain - Histoire - 20e siècle
K1 Théâtre noir américain - Histoire - 21e siècle