Contemporary African American Theater: Afrocentricity in the Works of Larry Neal, Amiri Baraka, and Charles Fuller

by Nilgun Anadolu Okur, Anadolu-Okur Ni, Nilgun Anadolu-Okur

Book Overview

The Black Arts Movement was sparked by the Civil Rights movement and the urge to produce and revitalize functional, realistic, and holistic symbols to express African American creativity. When Larry Neal began his quest for a new dramatic form to epitomize African American self-determination he laid the foundation upon which his friends and compatriots-Amiri Baraka and Charles Fuller-would build. Expressing their individual protests through their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415883245
• ISBN13: 9780415883245
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"