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Mnemopoetics. Memory and Slavery in African-American Drama (1939-1996)
… the textual and contextual analysis of selected African American plays, I have probed the various mnemopoetic strategies used by the playwrights to explore a past branded by the experience of slavery. The mnemopoetics of slavery appears to be irreducibly linked to a militant mnemopolitics of …
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"""I Love Myself When I Am Laughing"": Tracing the Origins of Black Folk Comedy in Zora Neale Hurston's Plays Before ""Mule Bone"
… has been credited as the 'first' attempted by African Americans to create 'Negro folk comedy.' This dissertation is driven from a question to the recent scholarship's tacit consent on such historic importance imposed on this play. This study suggests a possibility that there existed other works …