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Author

Krasner, David, 1952-

Title A beautiful pageant : African American theatre, drama, and performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1927 / David Krasner.

Imprint

New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	812.5209896 K864b 2002	---	Available

Edition	1st ed.
Description	xii, 370 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	African American performance in the Harlem renaissance -- pt. I. 1910-1918. Men in black and white : race and masculinity in the heavyweight title fight of 1910 -- Exoticism, dance, and racial myths : modern dance and the class divide in the choreography of Aida Overton Walker and Ethel Waters -- "Pageant is the thing" : black nationalism and The star of Ethiopia -- pt. II. Black drama. Walter Benjamin and the lynching play : mourning and allegory in Angelina Weld Grimke's Rachel -- Migration, fragmentation, and identity : Zora Neale Hurston's Color struck and the geography of the Harlem renaissance -- Wages of culture : Alain Locke and the folk dramas of Georgia Douglas Johnson and Willis Richardson -- pt. III. 1918-1927. "In the whirlwind and the storm" : Marcus Garvey and the performance of black nationalism -- Whose role is it, anyway? : Charles Gilpin and the Harlem renaissance -- "What constitutes a race drama and how may we know it when we find it?" : the little theatre movement and the black public sphere -- Shuffle along and the quest for nostalgia : black musicals of the 1920s -- Conclusion : End of "butter side up."
Subject	American drama -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
	African Americans in the performing arts -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
	African American theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
	Performing arts -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
	American drama -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism.
	African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Intellectual life.
	Theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
	American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life.
	African Americans in literature.
	Harlem Renaissance.
ISBN	0312295901 (hbk.)