The afterwards of blackness : race, time, and "post" era drama and film
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- "The Afterwards of Blackness: Race, Time, and 'Post' Era Drama and Film" brings critical attention to the ways "post" era artists carry out examinations of blackness in their work by innovating and employing aesthetic practices and strategies that center, draw on, and/or explore tropes of temporality. I sharpen focus on plays by Eisa Davis, Robert O'Hara, and Tarell Alvin McCraney as well as films by Tanya Hamilton and Tyler Perry, in particular, to consider how their engagements with these practices and strategies not only engender representations of blackness that bring into relief its multivalences but also become a means by which to offer up important cultural insights and to advance vital critiques. At stake in this study is an exploration of the different tactics "post" era black artists deploy to invite further reflection on blackness, its complexities, its utility, and its time. This project also examines the ways the artists animating it make use of these tactics to comment on the "post" and to trouble some of the constraining discourses and norms that continue to circulate and dominate within the era.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Wooden, Isaiah Matthew |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Theater and Performance Studies. |
| Primary advisor | Elam, Harry Justin |
| Primary advisor | Elam, Michele |
| Thesis advisor | Elam, Harry Justin |
| Thesis advisor | Elam, Michele |
| Thesis advisor | Brody, Jennifer DeVere |
| Thesis advisor | Menon, Jisha, 1972- |
| Advisor | Brody, Jennifer DeVere |
| Advisor | Menon, Jisha, 1972- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Isaiah Matthew Wooden. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Theater and Performance Studies. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- Copyright
- © 2015 by Isaiah Matthew Wooden
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