Aristotle and Black Drama

List of Illustrations

Prologue

1 Introduction, Civil Disobedience as Resistance to Tradition and Performance

2 Classical Origins of Character and Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro, Electra, and Orestes

3 The Oedipus Story and the Perfect Play, or the Gospel According to Rita Dove

The Darker Face of the Earth and Sonata Mulattica: A Life in Five Movements and a Short Play

4 Racial Intent and Dramatic Form

Eugene O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings and The Emperor Jones

5 Aristotle's "Spectacle" and August Wilson's "Spectacle Character"

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

6 Freedom Songs and Metaphors of Healing

Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra, Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, and Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus and Topdog/Underdog

7 Civil Disobedience, Truth and Reconciliation, and the Cosmopolitan Citizen

Charles Smith's The Gospel According to James, Thomas Bradshaw's Mary, David Mamet's Race, and Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park

Epilogue

References

Index