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Performing Blackness : Enactments of African-American Modernism
Performing Blackness Enactments of AfricanAmerican Modernism Author:Kimberly W. Benston Performing Blackness offers a challenging interpretation of black cultural expression since the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Exploring drama, music, poetry, poems, sermons and criticism, Kimberly W. Benston offers an exciting meditation on modern black performance's role in realizing African-American aspirations for autonomy and aut... more »hority. Artists covered include, Ntozake Shange, Ed Bullins, John Coltrane, Amiri Baraka, Adrienne Kennedy and Michael Harper. It is an exciting contribution to the ongoing debate about the vitality and importance of black culture.« less