Representing Blackness: Metatheater and Genre Remediation in 21st-Century African American Plays Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Since 2008, a new generation of experimental black playwrights has
been emerging in the U.S. Although researchers note the political
aspirations of their work, they have not yet considered the aesthetic
strategies that underpin these political purposes. Yet, in these plays,
metatheatrical devices such as audience address, rewriting and roleplay self-reflexively theatricalize blackness, and remediations of
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been emerging in the U.S. Although researchers note the political
aspirations of their work, they have not yet considered the aesthetic
strategies that underpin these political purposes. Yet, in these plays,
metatheatrical devices such as audience address, rewriting and roleplay self-reflexively theatricalize blackness, and remediations of
...