Aristotle and Black Drama
A Theater of Civil Disobedience
Civil disobedience has a tattered history in the American story. Described by Martin Luther King Jr. as both moral reflection and political act, the performance of civil disobedience in the face of unjust laws is also, Patrice Rankine argues, a deeply artistic practice. Modern parallels to King's civil disobedience can be found in black theater, where the black body challenges the normative assumptions of classical texts and modes of creation. This is a theater of civil disobedience.Utilizing Aristotle's Poetics, Rankine ably invokes the six aspects of Aristotelian drama--character, story, thought, spectacle, song, and diction. He demonstrate…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-60258-454-9
- EAN: 9781602584549
- Produktnummer: 34314406
- Verlag: Baylor University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 270 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 4'660 KB
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Patrice D. Rankine
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