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- Title
Dossett, Kate. Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2020. pp. 338.
- Authors
Saal, Ilka
- Abstract
According to Dossett, Black-authored plays such as I Liberty Deferred i , I Stars and Bars i , I Natural Man i , I Big White Fog i , I Panyared i , and I Go Down i Moses - even when they remained unstaged - made the Federal Theatre "bolder" and "expanded the parameters of what was imagined possible for American theater in the Federal Theatre Project" (p. 251). Kate Dossett's book I Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal i addresses a crucial aspect of American theater history about which so far little is known: the rich and productive work of the African American theater units of the government-sponsored Federal Theatre Project (FTP). Dossett's minute archival work, however, reveals how these manuscripts were shaped in complex processes of negotiation between Black performance communities and white FTP administrators.
- Subjects
UNIVERSITY of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; RACE discrimination; AFRICAN American children; AFRICAN American artists; AFRICAN American authors; BLACK people; LYNCHING; AFRICAN Americans
- Publication
Kritikon Litterarum, 2022, Vol 49, Issue 3/4, p370
- ISSN
0340-9767
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/kl-2022-0046