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Author: Brad Birch
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-07-28
Total Pages: 91
ISBN-13: 1472507096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the daily grind to lyrical flights, Even Stillness Breathes Softly Against a Brick Wall is a play full of the allure and danger of escape.
Author: Kristiana Rae Colón
Publisher:
Published: 2012-11-21
Total Pages: 101
ISBN-13: 9780957449114
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerica. 1970. Black Vietnam veteran Beau Willie Brown is held in custody, accused of a heinous crime. A story comes to light that sticks in the throat, a story murmured between dark dreams. beau come back from nam with empty eyes and hands like stone but the war started long before he got on that plane but i cd only whisper wrestles with being vulnerable and black in white America. Fusing the physical and the poetic, a strange song emerges from the warble of police sirens, the percussion of machine guns, and the chants of voices only you can hear.
Author: Carol P. Christ
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2015-10-13
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0807063630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiving Deep and Surfacing reveals how the writings of Kate Chopin, Margaret Atwood, Doris Lessing, Adrienne Rich, and Ntozake Shange can inform women's search for spiritual renewal. A new afterword testifies to the importance of spiritual autobiography for women.
Author: Tejumola Olaniyan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0195094050
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining in detail the dramas of Baraka, Soyinka, Walcott and Shange, this study describes how these black writers are preoccupied with the invention of a postimperial cultural identity. It charts the foundations of an important aesthetic form, the drama of the African diaspora.
Author: Kimberley W. Benston
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 1135078319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerforming Blackness offers a challenging interpretation of black cultural expression since the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Exploring drama, music, poetry, sermons, and criticism, Benston offers an exciting meditation on modern black performance's role in realising African-American aspirations for autonomy and authority. Artists covered include: * John Coltrane * Ntozake Shange * Ed Bullins * Amiri Baraka * Adrienne Kennedy * Michael Harper. Performing Blackness is an exciting contribution to the ongoing debate about the vitality and importance of black culture.
Author: Molly Davies
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-01-20
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 1474221890
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen he was small and his parents told him if he was good he would get a sweet, the boy knew it was not true. Getting the sweet had nothing to do with being good. 'Badger Do Best' has landed, bringing with it a new world of rules and regulations. But the kids in the classroom are fighting back. Tired of being guinea pigs in yet another government scheme, can the class of 4N bring down the education regime set to pacify them? After years working in the classroom, Molly Davies imagines a mutiny of eight-year-olds in her play commissioned by the Royal Court. God Bless the Child received its world premiere in the Upstairs space on 12 November 2014, directed by Royal Court Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone.
Author: Philip Himberg
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-04-28
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 1472511271
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“You know, Yossi, we couldn't dress like this in the Philippines… wear earrings, dye our hair, put on make up, lipstick. It's forbidden.” In Tel Aviv, Israel, a group of Filipino immigrants work as live-in carers for elderly Orthodox Jewish men. Six days a week they provide dedicated support to their employers. But on the seventh day they transform into a homespun, sassy musical drag act. Meet the Paper Dolls! An extraordinary true story exploring an unlikely collision of cultures and the universal desire to find 'home'. Based on Tomer Heymann's award-winning documentary of the same name, Paper Dolls explores changing patterns of global immigration and expanding notions of family through the prism of a community of Filipino transvestites who live illegally in Israel.
Author: Tru Leverette
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1800859775
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on literary and visual art of the Black Arts Movement, this collection highlights artists whose work diverged from narrow definitions of the Black Aesthetic and black nationalism. As contemporary activists receive the legacies of earlier efforts, this collection remembers and re-envisions art that supported and shaped the BAM era.
Author: Ailis Ni Riain
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-03-29
Total Pages: 97
ISBN-13: 1472505778
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"She's goin' back there. I can tell. She's breakin' her promise. She's breakin' my heart. She said she never would." Sive and Orlaith are twelve and thirteen. Yet despite their age, they are each responsible for the care of their respective parents. When the girls meet on a social day for carers, they forge a relationship that takes them on an epic journey through the twisting backroads of small towns, friendship and love. Desolate Heaven is a story of two young girls burdened with unnatural responsibilities. It is a story of falling in love for the first time and a story about running away. It is a story about growing up too soon and about why love can sometimes be dangerous.
Author: John Forster
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-03-24
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 3382149176
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
