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Staging faith : religion and African American theater from the Harlem renaissance to World War II / Craig R. Prentiss.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : New York University Press, [2013]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780814708408
  • 0814708404
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Staging faithDDC classification:
  • 792.089/96073 23
LOC classification:
  • PN2270.A35 P74 2013eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Setting the stage -- New territory -- Lynching and the faraway God -- Caught within the shadow -- Blackness in the image of God.
Summary: In the years between the Harlem Renaissance and World War II, African American playwrights gave birth to a vital Black theater movement in the U.S. It was a movement overwhelmingly concerned with the role of religion in Black identity. In a time of profound social transformation fueled by a massive migration from the rural south to the urban-industrial centers of the north, scripts penned by dozens of Black playwrights reflected cultural tensions, often rooted in class, that revealed competing conceptions of religion's role in the formation of racial identity.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)641618

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Setting the stage -- New territory -- Lynching and the faraway God -- Caught within the shadow -- Blackness in the image of God.

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In the years between the Harlem Renaissance and World War II, African American playwrights gave birth to a vital Black theater movement in the U.S. It was a movement overwhelmingly concerned with the role of religion in Black identity. In a time of profound social transformation fueled by a massive migration from the rural south to the urban-industrial centers of the north, scripts penned by dozens of Black playwrights reflected cultural tensions, often rooted in class, that revealed competing conceptions of religion's role in the formation of racial identity.