TY  - BOOK
AU  - Prentiss,Craig R.
TI  - Staging faith: religion and African American theater from the Harlem renaissance to World War II 
SN  - 9780814708408
AV  - PN2270.A35 P74 2013eb
U1  - 792.089/96073 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - African American theater
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - American drama
KW  - African American authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Theater
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Religion in literature
KW  - Théâtre noir américain
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Théâtre américain
KW  - Auteurs noirs américains
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Théâtre
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Religion dans la littérature
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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