Publication Date
Winter 1-2018
Description
In this essay, I elaborate my present project, grounded in what I call drama theory, the critical theoretical dimensions of dramatic writing, and address the deeply troubling intramural tensions across Black Studies, between those who read blackness, and black cultural production, through largely futurist, celebratory lenses; and those who apply a structural analysis to blackness as the site against, upon, and through which the world coheres its soci(et)al apparatuses and machinations. I situate myself within the latter constellation, and sample here two plays by Suzan-Lori Parks to demonstrate how I translate the analyses of antiblack violence by black feminist dramatists.
Journal
Theory & Event
Volume
21
Issue
1
First Page
191
Last Page
214
Department
Africana Studies
Link to Published Version
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/685976
Recommended Citation
Williams, Jaye Austin. "Radical Black Drama-as-Theory: The Black Feminist Dramatic on the Protracted Event-Horizon." Theory & Event (2018) : 191-214.
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