Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
Edited by E. Patrick Johnson
New and forthcoming Titles:
Alison Rose Reed
Staging Black Fugitivity
Stacie Selmon McCormick
Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Culture of Uplift, Identity, and Politics in Black Musical Theater
Paula Marie Seniors
Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War’s “Gospel Army”
Contemporary Black Women Filmmakers and the Art of Resistance
Christina N. Baker
Fathers, Preachers, Rebels, Men: Black Masculinity in U.S. History and Literature, 1820–1945
Timothy R. Buckner and Peter Caster, eds.
Mama’s Gun: Black Maternal Figures and the Politics of Transgression
Mutha’ Is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture
L. H. Stallings
Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Film
The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution
Reimagining the Middle Passage:Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song
Secrecy, Magic, and the One-Act Plays of Harlem Renaissance Women Writers
Theatrical Jazz: Performance, Àṣẹ, and the Power of the Present Moment
Omi Osun Joni L. Jones
When the Devil Knocks: The Congo Tradition and the Politics of Blackness in Twentieth-Century PanamaThe Black Performance and Cultural Criticism series includes monographs that draw on interdisciplinary methods to analyze, critique, and theorize black cultural production.Books in the series take as their object of intellectual inquiry the performances produced on the stage and on the page, stretching the boundaries of both black performance and literary criticism. Inquiries should be directed to Ana Jimenez-Moreno at The Ohio State University Press. (Download series flyer)