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Black arts and white devils: the theatre of black power

dc.contributor.authorBrewer, Mary F.
dc.date.accessioned2012-09-19T09:16:21Z
dc.date.available2012-09-19T09:16:21Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractNeste artigo, exploro como o teatro do Black Arts Movement constituiu um importante fórum público no decurso do movimento em defesa dos direitos civis nos EUA. A representação dramática das identidades branca e negra professada pelos dramaturgos do Black Power desafiou a validade da ideologia dominante que rodeava a identidade nacional, sobretudo por subverter os dogmas da religião civil norte-americana. Demonstrou, assim, que os mitos que rodeiam a identidade nacional unem alguns americanos e causam fraturas violentas entre outros. Contudo, histórias dissidentes da vida e identidade norte-americanas que caraterizaram o drama do Black Arts Movement no final dos anos sessenta e início dos anos setenta ofereceram mais do que meras respostas à corrente dominante. Antes, as peças que emergiram no contexto do ativismo e da filosofia do Black Power proporcionaram às audiências novas e alternativas conceções da identidade americana, com as quais os afro-americanos, historicamente excluídos das narrativas do eu nacional, se identificaram e puderam emular.por
dc.description.abstractThis essay explores how theater of the Black Arts Movement served as an important public forum in the American Civil Rights Movement. The dramatic representations of black and white identities proffered by Black Power dramatists challenged the validity of dominant ideology surrounding national identity primarily by subverting the tenets of American civil religion, and thereby demonstrating how myths surrounding national identity bind some together while causing violent ruptures between other kinds of Americans. However, dissenting stories of American national life and identity that characterized drama of the Black Arts movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s offered more than mere responses to the mainstream. Rather, plays that emerged out of the context of Black Power activism and philosophy provided audiences with new, alternative conceptions of American identity, with which black Americans, historically excluded from narratives of the national self, could identify and emulate.
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dc.identifier.citationBREWER, Mary F. - Black Arts and White Devils: the theatre of Black Power. Máthesis. Viseu. ISSN 0872-0215. Nº 20 (2011), 209-229.por
dc.identifier.doi10.34632/mathesis.2011.5227
dc.identifier.issn0872-0215
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/9167
dc.language.isoengpor
dc.peerreviewedyespor
dc.publisherUniversidade Católica Portuguesapor
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectDrama afro-americanopor
dc.subjectPolíticapor
dc.subjectReligiãopor
dc.subjectAfrican-American dramapor
dc.subjectPoliticspor
dc.subjectReligionpor
dc.titleBlack arts and white devils: the theatre of black powerpor
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage229por
oaire.citation.issue20
oaire.citation.startPage209por
oaire.citation.titleMáthesispor
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspor
rcaap.typearticlepor

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