Solo/black/woman : scripts, interviews, and essays
- Responsibility
- edited by E. Patrick Johnson and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera.
- Imprint
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.
- Physical description
- xxiv, 367 p. : ill. ; 23 cm + 1 DVD (4 3/4 in.)
Description
Creators/Contributors
Contents/Summary
- Contents
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- Foreword / D. Soyini Madison
- Introduction / E. Patrick Johnson and Ramon Rivera-Servera
- Sugar : a work-in-progress / Robbie McCauley
- Interview with Robbie McCauley / E. Patrick Johnson
- "I've got the sweetest hangover" : Robbie McCauley's Sugar / Sandra L. Richards
- Big-butt girls, hard-headed women / Rhodessa Jones
- Interview with Rhodessa Jones / E. Patrick Johnson
- In the space between living and dying : Rhodessa Jones's Big-butt girls, hard-headed women / Lisa Biggs
- Passing solo / Nancy Cheryll Davis-Bellamy
- Interview with Nancy Cheryll Davis-Bellamy / Jennifer Devere Brody
- Performing passing and passing as performance : on Nancy Cheryll Davis-Bellamy's Passing solo, based on Nella Larsen's novella Passing / Bryant Keith Alexander
- Adventures of a black girl in search of academic clarity and inclusion / Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe
- Interview with Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe / Omi Osun Joni Jones
- "How does it feel to be a problem?" : Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe's Adventures of a black girl in search of academic clarity and inclusion / Renee Alexander-Craft
- Delta dandi : ritual/jazz theater / Sharon Bridgforth
- Interview with Sharon Bridgforth / Anita Gonzalez Aquanova
- Collapsing time in the lives of Sharon Bridgforth's Delta dandi / Stephanie Batiste
- Quiet frenzy / Stacey Robinson
- Interview with Stacey Robinson / Diana Paulin
- The body, trauma, and history in Stacey Robinson's Quiet frenzy / Nadine George Graves
- Milkweed / Misty DeBerry
- Interview with Misty DeBerry / Raquel Monroe
- Witness and the politics of readdressing black pain and pleasure: Misty DeBerry's Milkweed / Francesca Royster
- Acknowledgments / E. Patrick Johnson and Ramon H. Rivera-Servera.
- Publisher's summary
-
The collection <em>solo/black/woman</em> features seven solo performances by emerging and established feminist performance artists from the past three decades. The scripts are accompanied by interviews and critical essays, as well as a DVD showcasing the performances. The performers range from Robbie McCauley and Rhodessa Jones, who were at the leading edge of the solo monologue boom of the 1980s, to new talents such as Stacey Robinson and Misty DeBerry. Collectively, their work displays an enormous range of aesthetic approach and thematic emphasis. The anthology offers a comprehensive, stimulating introduction to the beauty, richness, urgency, pleasure, and political promise of black feminist performance.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
Subjects
- Subjects
- Cooper-Anifowoshe, Edris. Adventures of a black girl in search of academic clarity and inclusion.
- Robinson, Stacey Karen. Quiet frenzy.
- DeBerry, Misty. Milkweed.
- Bridgforth, Sharon. Delta dandi.
- McCauley, Robbie. Sugar.
- Jones, Rhodessa. Big-butt girls, hard-headed women.
- Davis-Bellamy, Nancy Cheryll. Passing solo.
- Monologues, American > 21st century.
- African American women dramatists.
- African American actresses.
- American drama > African American authors.
- American drama > Women authors.
- African American women > Social conditions > Drama.
Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2014
- Note
- "The publication also includes a DVD of video samples for each of the performances documented, discussed, and analyzed within"--Introduction.
- Related Work
- McCauley, Robbie. Sugar.
- Jones, Rhodessa. Big-butt girls, hard-headed women.
- Davis-Bellamy, Nancy Cheryll. Passing solo.
- Cooper-Anifowoshe, Edris. Adventures of a black girl in search of academic clarity and inclusion.
- Bridgforth, Sharon. Delta dandi.
- Robinson, Stacey Karen. Quiet frenzy.
- DeBerry, Misty. Milkweed.
- ISBN
- 9780810129474 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0810129477 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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