Theater and crisis: myth, memory, and racial reckoning in America, 1964-2020
"Theater and Crisis proposes an account of how the murder of George Floyd - and similar events - could happen in the aftermath of the Civil Rights era and a purportedly post-racial period, after the election of Barack Obama, a Black man, to the U.S. Presidency. Racial reckoning was a recurrent...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor
Lever Press
2024
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Further subjects: | B
Théâtre américain - Auteurs noirs américains - Histoire et critique
B Théâtre noir américain - Histoire - 20e siècle B Théâtre noir américain - Histoire - 21e siècle |
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| Summary: | "Theater and Crisis proposes an account of how the murder of George Floyd - and similar events - could happen in the aftermath of the Civil Rights era and a purportedly post-racial period, after the election of Barack Obama, a Black man, to the U.S. Presidency. Racial reckoning was a recurrent theme during the summer of 2020, in the wake of the disparate impact of COVID-19 on various groups and Floyd's killing. I argue that rather than approaching the problem of racial reckoning through history, where periodization and progress are dominant narratives, myth and memory allow better theorization about recurrent events from the past, their haunting, and what these figurations (or ghosts) ask of us. Building on the study of myth as active, processual storytelling that grounds and orients groups toward significant events, I align narratives about Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin, George Floyd, and others with ancient, mythic figures, including Christ, Dionysus, Oedipus, and Moses. As living visual and verbal visitations, these stories repeat and do work in the present, urging groups that apprehend them toward meaning and resolution"-- |
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| Item Description: | Description based on print version record |
| ISBN: | 164315060X |
| Access: | Open Access |