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

Examining how Blackness has been historically staged in German theater and how it should be represented today

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.

Summary

Examining how Blackness has been historically staged in German theater and how it should be represented today

Product details

• Authors: Priscilla Dionne Tonger-Erk Layne
• Assisted by: Priscilla Dionne Layne (Editor), Lily Tonger-Erk (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.05.2024
• EAN: 9780472056248
• ISBN: 978-0-472-05624-8
• No. of pages: 342
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries