Complicit Participation: The Liberal Audience for Theater of Racial Justice

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Carrie J. Preston (Professor of English and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Professor of English and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Boston University)

Complicit Participation

The Liberal Audience for Theater of Racial Justice

Carrie J. Preston (Professor of English and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Professor of English and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Boston University)

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Oxford University Press Inc
28 June 2024

Theatre Studies; Dance; Other performing arts; Social discrimination; Ethnic studies

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

By: Carrie J. Preston (Professor of English and Women's Gender & Sexuality Studies Professor of English and Women's Gender & Sexuality Studies Boston University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 226mm, Width: 150mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9780197693407
ISBN 10: 0197693407
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 28 June 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.