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Instructors: Dr. Frank Obenland
Event type:
Practice class
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.514
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Contents:
Twentieth-century African American drama and theater history has been profoundly shaped by contested notions of race, theater, and performance. While the tradition of black social protest theater culminated in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, African American dramatists have continuously worked to articulate an affirmative African American identity throughout the twentieth century. Discussing plays by Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberry, Adrienne Kennedy, Amiri Baraka, August Wilson, and Suzan-Lori Parks, students will investigate how these dramatists shaped and contributed to the construction of a distinct African American cultural memory. Students will thus examine the various intersections between African American theater history and the development of race as a social, political, and cultural category in the United States.
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