Abstract
dc:description.abstract<underline> Black Eyez: Memoirs of a Revolutionary </underline> engages in an investigation of the performative relationship between race and color. It offers a review of the genesis of race as a political invention, to articulate the intersubjective relationship between Black Power ideology and the Black Aesthetic. By highlighting the historical recovery of Black subjectivity, I argue Black aestheticians produced a form of performative decolonization. I then suggest the use of ethnographic dramaturgy as both an informed approach to staging the self, as well as a space to offer my personal performance philosophy. The script "Sole/Daughter" is offered as an augmentation of The Revolutionary Theatre's paradigmatic assumptions.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Campus Only Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Speech Communication
- Year
- 2008
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Hastings, Rachel N.
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Warren, John
Subjects
dc:subject × 4Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/278
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:opensiuc.lib.siu.edu:dissertations-1278