{"product_id":"staging-black-fugitivity-9780814214053","title":"Staging Black Fugitivity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eStaging Black Fugitivity\u003c\/i\u003e asks: How does drama constitute an important site for ongoing conversations about slavery's resonance and its legacies? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo answer this question, Stacie Selmon McCormick charts the historical turn toward slavery in black drama that began in the last quarter of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis movement, spearheaded by August Wilson and Suzan-Lori Parks, has been largely under-theorized, yet it participates in and advances the neo-slave narrative genre--with contemporary black dramas enhancing the neo-slave narrative's capacity to represent the visual, corporal, and affective dimensions of the black body and slavery as an institution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMcCormick traces the innovative ways that artists render slavery for present-day audiences. The dramas assembled in this book approach slavery from myriad perspectives--afro-futurist, feminist, and queer--in order to produce new imaginaries that offer more complex depictions of black experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough subverting notions of time, race, gender, and familiar histories of slavery themselves, the dramas under discussion produce \u003ci\u003eperformances of fugitivity\u003c\/i\u003e--subversive, radical, and experimental performances of black artistic and political freedom at the site of slavery. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stacie Selmon McCormick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/09\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814214053\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStacie Selmon McCormick is Assistant Professor of English at Texas Christian University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ohio State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40414637457523,"sku":"0814214053","price":245.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_39c86e8a-dc7c-4765-8a1a-9ebb2ab17750.jpg?v=1662212922","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/staging-black-fugitivity-9780814214053","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}