Acting Out: Performance Theory in African and African American Literature

by John Glenn

Book Overview

John Glenn's innovative criticism champions the connection between African and African American literature, unfolding a new theory that elaborates on the black experience itself. Linking resistance to the literary history and to the expressiveness of blacks, Glenn provides the basis for a study of African and African American fiction at the social level. He shows how empiricism and action are both central to African and African American methods of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1425948251
• ISBN13: 9781425948252
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"