Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-155) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: A body without a nation -- Mapping fugitivity in black drama -- Fugitive acts -- Performing escape -- Fugitive intimacies -- Epilogue: Contemplating and complicating black freedom.
Summary:
"Argues that contemporary black dramas use the slave past to complicate views of the history of slavery, the realities of racial progress, and black subjectivity. McCormick analyzes work by August Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks, Tanya Barfield, Lorraine Hansberry, Lydia Diamond, Robert O'Hara, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, amongst others"-- Provided by publisher.
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