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Thunder on the Stage

The Dramatic Vision of Richard Wright

Dick, Bruce Allen

University of Illinois Press

03/2024

296

Dura

Inglês

9780252045684

15 a 20 dias

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Foreword Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I. Thunder on the Stage: The American Years

1 The Ethics of Acting Jim Crow

2 From Minstrelsy to Shakespeare to Authentic Black Theater: Playwrights, Writers, Critics, and Inter-textual Play

3 Distant Thunder: Wright, the Federal Theatre, and Early Attempts at Writing Plays

4 Native Son on Stage

5 Orator, Performer, and Stage Writer Pursuing Social Change

6 Boxing Jim Crow

Part II. The Last Lampoon: Years Abroad

7 Reconstructing Identity: The Influence of Sartre, de Beauvoir, Camus, and Others

8 Acting Bigger Thomas

9 "Daddy Goodness": Richard Wright's Last Lampoon

Conclusion

Notes

Index

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John Reed Club theatrical performances; Shakespeare; Theodore Ward; Jean-Paul Sartre; existentialists; Native Son the first film; Wright as actor; Wright's one-act plays; WWII coming-home plays; The Burkes as an influence on Native Son the novel; Native Son on Broadway; Orson Welles; John Houseman; Paul Green; Canada Lee; United We Stand Divided We Fall; boxing as theatre; Daddy Goodness; Louis Sapin