TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hagood,Taylor
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers / 
T2  - Black performance and cultural criticism
SN  - 9780814271247
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Columbus
PB  - The Ohio State University Press
KW  - Spence, Eulalie,
KW  - Miller, May,
KW  - Johnson, Georgia Douglas,
KW  - Hurston, Zora Neale
KW  - Du Bois, Shirley Graham,
KW  - Duncan, Thelma Myrtle,
KW  - Burrill, Mary,
KW  - Bonner, Marita,
KW  - Secrecy in literature
KW  - fast
KW  - One-act plays, American
KW  - Magic in literature
KW  - Harlem Renaissance
KW  - American drama
KW  - Women authors
KW  - African American authors
KW  - aat
KW  - Magie dans la litterature
KW  - Secret dans la litterature
KW  - Pieces en un acte americaines
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Femmes dramaturges noires americaines
KW  - 20e siecle
KW  - Theâtre americain
KW  - Auteurs noirs americains
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - African American women dramatists
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Critiques litteraires
KW  - rvmgf
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Induction : Joice Heth -- On secrecy, magic, and Black women playwrights -- The one-acts -- Exeunt : an illusion; Open Access
N2  - "Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers seeks to rescue the plays of eight black women, Marita Bonner, Mary P. Burrill, Thelma Duncan, Shirley Graham, Zora Neale Hurston, Georgia Douglas Johnson, May Miller, and Eulalie Spence, from obscurity. This volume is the first book-length treatment to address these plays and their authors exclusively rather than as part of a discussion of other African American playwrights from different eras. It is also one of the few to carry out an extensive discussion of secrecy's role in both literary representation and social interaction. Exploring secrecy from the standpoints of poststructuralist language theory and game theory as well as dramatic performance, Taylor Hagood argues that the secret--a thing visible for its very invisibility--is a fundamental cog in the machinery of society, employed as a tool for both oppression and subversion. The many facets of secrecy have been particularly salient in African American culture, informing everything from the Underground Railroad to the subtle coding of Signifying. Most devastatingly, people on both sides of the color line are caught within a web of secrecy that is the result of centuries of distrust, doubt, and fear, a fact that is powerfully manifest not only in these one-act plays but in the reader's/spectator's interactions with them"--Publisher's description
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/27729/
ER  -