The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation

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Title: The Healing Stage: Black Women, Incarceration, and the Art of Transformation
Authors: Biggs, Lisa (Actor and playwright)
Publisher Information: The Ohio State University Press, 2022.
Publication Year: 2022
Subject Terms: Women prisoners, African American prisoners, Prison theater, Theater and society, Women in the performing arts, Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American & Black Studies, Social Science / Penology, Performing arts -- Social aspects
Description: Introduction: Race, gender, crime, performance -- "She was no Rosa Parks": a Black women's history of mass incarceration in the United States -- How to stage healing -- Bad bad bad bad bad bad woman: making theater in a Midwestern jail -- The pink dress -- Bring me my machine gun: the Medea Project in South Africa -- It has been my healing to tell the dirty truth -- Conclusion: Beyond incarceration. ; Item embargoed for five years
Document Type: Book
File Description: application/pdf
DOI: 10.26818/9780814214930
Accession Number: edsair.doi.dedup.....107420a5ce0019320d5f5d7f321d054a
Database: OpenAIRE
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DOI:10.26818/9780814214930