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  • 1964, A Year in African American Performance History

    by David Krasner ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    This book examines the Civil Rights Movement from the perspective of a single year, 1964.The book analyses specific events that occurred in 1964 as benchmarks of the Civil Right Movement, making the case that 1964 was a watershed year. Each chapter considers individually politics, rhetoric, sports, dramatic literature, film, art, and music, breaking down the events and illustrating their ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • A History of Modern Drama, Volume I

    by David Krasner ...
    Covering the period 1879 to 1959, and taking in everything from Ibsen to Beckett, this book is volume one of a two-part comprehensive examination of the plays, dramatists, and movements that comprise modern world drama.Contains detailed analysis of plays and playwrights, connecting themes and offering original interpretationsIncludes coverage of non-English works and traditions to create a global ... Read more

    $148.00 USD

  • A History of Modern Drama, Volume II

    1960 - 2000

    by David Krasner ...
    A History of Modern Drama: Volume II explores a remarkable breadth of topics and analytical approaches to the dramatic works, authors, and transitional events and movements that shaped world drama from 1960 through to the dawn of the new millennium.Features detailed analyses of plays and playwrights, examining the influence of a wide range of writers, from mainstream icons such as Harold Pinter ... Read more

    $86.00 USD

  • African American Performance and Theater History

    A Critical Reader

    Edited by Harry J. Elam, David Krasner ...
    African-American Performance and Theatre History is an anthology of critical writings that explores the intersections of race, theater, and performance in America. Assembled by two respected scholars in black theater and composed of essays from acknowledged authorities in the field (Joseph Roach and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. among other), this volume is organized into four sections representative of ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

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    How to Make Love to a Despot

    An Alternative Foreign Policy for the Twenty-First Century

    by Stephen D. Krasner ...
    Narrated by David de Vries ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 27 min

    Since the end of the Second World War, the United States has sunk hundreds of billions of dollars into foreign economies in the hope that its investments would help remake the world in its own image—or, at the very least, make the world "safe for democracy." So far, the returns have been disappointing, to say the least. Pushing for fair and free elections in undemocratic countries has added to the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Staging Philosophy

    Intersections of Theater, Performance, and Philosophy

    Edited by David Krasner, David Z. Saltz ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    The fifteen original essays in Staging Philosophy make useful connections between the discipline of philosophy and the fields of theater and performance and use these insights to develop new theories about theater. Each of the contributors—leading scholars in the fields of performance and philosophy—breaks new ground, presents new arguments, and offers new theories that will pave the way for ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

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    Pogrom

    Kishinev and the Tilt of History

    by Steven J. Zipperstein ...
    Narrated by Barry Abrams ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 38 min

    So shattering were the aftereffects of Kishinev, the rampage that broke out in late-Tsarist Russia in April 1903, that one historian remarked that it was "nothing less than a prototype for the Holocaust itself." In three days of violence, 49 Jews were killed and 600 raped or wounded, while more than 1,000 Jewish-owned houses and stores were ransacked and destroyed. Recounted in lurid detail by ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Ploughmen

    A Novel

    by Kim Zupan ...
    Narrated by Jim Meskimen ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 54 min

    A young sheriff and a hardened killer form an uneasy and complicated bond in this mesmerizing first novel set on the plains of Montana.Steeped in a lonesome Montana landscape as unyielding and raw as it is beautiful, Kim Zupan's The Ploughmen is a new classic in the literature of the American West.At the center of this searing fever-dream of a novel are two men—a killer awaiting trial and a ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

  • The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader

    by Henry Louis Gates Jr ...
    Educator, writer, critic, intellectual, film-maker-Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been widely praised as being one of America's most prominent and prolific scholars. In what will be an essential volume, The Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Reader collects three decades of writings from his many fields of interest and expertise.From his earliest work of literary-historical excavation in 1982, through his ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Contemporary African American Literature

    The Living Canon

    Edited by Lovalerie King, Shirley Moody-Turner ...
    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    Essays exploring contemporary black fiction and examining important issues in current African American literary studies.In this volume, Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner have compiled a collection of essays that offer access to some of the most innovative contemporary black fiction while addressing important issues in current African American literary studies. Distinguished scholars Houston ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black American Cinema

    Edited by Manthia Diawara ...
    Series series AFI Film Readers
    This is the first major collection of criticism on Black American cinema. From the pioneering work of Oscar Micheaux and Wallace Thurman to the Hollywood success of Spike Lee, Black American filmmakers have played a remarkable role in the development of the American film, both independent and mainstream.In this volume, the work of early Black filmmakers is given serious attention for the first ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature

    Edited by William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, Trudier Harris ...
    This abridgement of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature will make the entries of the greatest general interest available to a wider audience, providing the same calibre of scholarship and information as the original volume. The Concise collects more than 400 biographies (authors, critics, literary characters and historical figures) of both well-known figures and the lives and ... Read more

    $41.39 USD