Staging Blackness: Representations of Race in German-Speaking Drama and Theater by Layne, Priscilla Dionne

Staging Blackness: Representations of Race in German-Speaking Drama and Theater

Staging Blackness provides a multifaceted look at how Blackness has been staged in Germany from the eighteenth...
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Author: Priscilla Dionne Layne
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Staging Blackness: Representations of Race in German-Speaking Drama and Theater by Layne, Priscilla Dionne

Staging Blackness: Representations of Race in German-Speaking Drama and Theater

BD$200.18

Staging Blackness: Representations of Race in German-Speaking Drama and Theater

BD$200.18
Author: Priscilla Dionne Layne
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Staging Blackness provides a multifaceted look at how Blackness has been staged in Germany from the eighteenth century, the birth of German national theater, until the present. In recent years, the German stage has been at the forefront of discussions about race, from cases of blackface to fights for better representation within the professional community. These debates frequently invoke larger discussions about the politics of race in German theater and their origins and beyond.

Written by scholars and theater professionals with a wide variety of historical and theoretical expertise, the chapters seek to explore the connections between the German discourse on national theater and emerging ideas about race, analyze how dramaturges deal with older representations of Blackness in current productions, and discuss the contributions Black German playwrights and dramaturges have made to this discourse. Historians question how these plays were staged in their time, while cultural studies scholars contemplate how to interpret the function of race in these plays and how they can continue to be staged today.

Author: Priscilla Dionne Layne
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 05/16/2024
Pages: 342
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.11h x 6.30w x 0.97d
ISBN: 9780472076246

About the Author
Priscilla Layne is Professor of German and Adjunct Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture (2018).

Lily Tonger-Erk is Associate Professor at the German Studies Department and Research Associate at the Rhetoric Department of the University of Tübingen, Germany.

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