Complicit Participation

The Liberal Audience for Theater of Racial Justice

AvCarrie J. Preston

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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In this incisive critique of the ways performances of allyship can further entrench white privilege, author Carrie J. Preston analyses her own complicit participation and that of other audience members and theater professionals, deftly examining the prevailing framework through which white liberals participate in antiracist theater and institutional “diversity, equity, and inclusion” initiatives. The book addresses immersive, documentary, site-specific, experimental, street, and popular theatre in chapters on Jean Genet's The Blacks, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's An Octoroon, George C. Wolfe's Shuffle Along, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton, Anna Deavere Smith's Notes from the Field, and Claudia Rankine's The White Card. Far from abandoning the work to dismantle institutionalized racism, Preston seeks to reveal the contradictions and complicities at the heart of allyship as a crucial step toward full and radical participation in antiracist efforts.

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-07-07
Mått:156 x 235 x undefined mm
Vikt:1 180 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780197693391

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Carrie J. Preston is the Arvind and Chandan Nandlal Kilachand Professor and Director of Kilachand Honors College, Professor of English and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, and the founding Associate Director of the Center on Forced Displacement at Boston University. She is the author of Modernism's Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, & Solo Performance and Learning to Kneel: Noh, Modernism, & Journeys in Teaching.

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Complicit Participation is heartfelt and revealing of the author's perspective.

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Part I The Troubling Pleasures of Complicit Participation Introduction Chapter 1: Blackfaced at The Blacks: Complicit Participation in Jean Genet's Lessons on Race Part II The Melodramatics of American Racism Chapter 2: Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon and the Loudly Immersed Audiences of Nineteenth-Century Melodramas Chapter 3: Hissing, Bidding, and Lynching at Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's An Octoroon Part III Dueling on Broadway Chapter 4: Shuffle Along . . . the Campaign Trail Chapter 5: Hamilton ParticiNation in Diversity and Its Discontents Part IV Act II or Just Another Talkback? Chapter 6: Doing Time in Anna Deavere Smith's Act II Chapter 7: Playing The White Card with Claudia Rankine Coda