Cultural Memory, Drama, and the African American Freedom Struggle of the 1960s
by
Carol Bunch Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Prefiguring Postblackness explores the tensions between cultural memory of the African American freedom struggle and representations of African American identity staged in five plays between 1959 and 1969 during the civil rights era. Through close readings of the plays, their popular and African American...