Experiments in democracy : interracial and cross-cultural exchange in American theatre, 1912-1945
Cheryl Black (Editor), Jonathan Shandell (Editor)
"Essays in "Experiments in Democracy" look at theatre groups, as well as individual playwrights and their works, to examine how theatre artists used performance to try to bridge America's persistent racial divide and sought strategies for bringing different communities and cultural traditions into the nation's broader cultural conversation"-- Provided by publisher
Print Book, English, 2016
Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, 2016
Criticism, interpretation, etc
vii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9780809334681, 0809334682
908376299
Introduction : Public laboratories of pluralism / Jonathan Shandell
Trying on The yellow jacket : performing Chinese exclusion and assimilation (1912-28) / Ju Yon Kim
Jazz, Jews, and modernism on Broadway : from Lady, be good! to Show boat (1924-27) / Stuart J. Hecht
Reconfiguring race and citizenship : the Teatro Vernáculo of La Unión Martí-Maceo (1930-40) / Eric Mayer-García
A cosmogony for the marginalized : Lynn Riggs, mythmaking, and multiracial-homosexual apologetics (1931-32) / W. Douglas Powers
Moving the world toward brotherhood : representations of cultural "otherness" in the Theatre Union's Black pit (1935) / Cheryl Black and Anne Fletcher
(Re)visioning Mexican intellectual and peasant life : Josefina Niggli's plays with the Carolina Playmakers (1936-38) / Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez
The politics of Black masculinity in Theodore Browne's Natural man (1937) / Harry J. Elam Jr
Choreographing diversity and American experience : Myra Kinch and group, Federal Theatre Project (1937-39) / Margaret F. Savilonis
Imagined democracy : the Federal Theatre Project performs (native) America (1938-39) / Elizabeth A. Osborne
"Ethnic Americanism" versus isolationism : pluralistic antifascism in "Fun to be free" (1941) / Garrett Eisler
"Spain...brought me back to America" : ghostings of other races in Paul Robesons's Othello and José Ferrer's Iago (1943) / Lisa Jackson-Schebetta
Turning "negroes" into "people" onstage : Anna Lucasta in Harlem and on Broadway (1944) / Jonathan Shandell
The stage door canteen : the American Theatre wing's experiment in integration (1942-45) / Andrea Nouryeh
Afterword : American democracy : a work in progress / Cheryl Black