Nov 14, 2009
Seeking to extricate the power of African American music and dance from the stereotypes and trivializations of minstrelsy in its various forms, African American dramatists struggled during the twentieth century to locate or create an audience receptive to the full range of their thematic and theatrical concerns. The attempt to develop an autonomous style without sacrificing all access to production confronts African American playwrights, collectively and individually, with a paradoxical situation in which they must first demonstrate their mastery of traditionally...
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