Katie N. Johnson
Racing the Great White Way: Black Performance, Eugene O'Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway
Racing the Great White Way: Black Performance, Eugene O'Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway
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Eugene ONeill's early drama opened up opportunities for Black performers to challenge racist structures in modern theater and cinema, adapting his dramatic text to omit offensive epithets, insert African American music and dance, and include citations of Black internationalism. Katie Johnson's book, Racing the Great White Way, reveals a more complex system of exchanges between the Broadway establishment and a vibrant Black theater scene in New York and beyond, charting a new history of American and transnational theater. ONeill's plays, such as The Emperor Jones and All Gods Chillun Got Wings, stimulated extraordinary traffic between Broadway and Harlem, between white and Black America, and the book attends to the vibrant transnational exchange in early to mid-20th century artistic production.
Format: Hardback
Length: 270 pages
Publication date: 31 July 2023
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
Eugene ONeill's early drama, with its focus on racial themes and conflicts, provided Black performers with significant opportunities to challenge racist structures in modern theater and cinema. By adapting ONeill's dramatic text, theater artists of color have used his works to break down barriers in American and transatlantic theater. Johnson's book challenges the notion that Broadway was the sole creative engine of U.S. theater during the early 20th century, revealing a more complex system of exchanges between the Broadway establishment and a vibrant Black theater scene in New York and beyond. Despite the dichotomous representation of Blackness in ONeill's plays, such as The Emperor Jones and All Gods Chillun Got Wings, they serve as ideal case studies for the extraordinary traffic between Broadway and Harlem, as well as between white and Black America. While the book primarily focuses on Broadway productions of ONeill, it also explores the vibrant transnational exchange in early to mid-20th century artistic production. Through archival research, Racing the Great White Way recovers lost performance histories and the layered contexts for performing bodies across the Black Atlantic and the Circum-Atlantic.
Weight: 272g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780472075782
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