Blackeyed Plays and Monologues
Blackeyed is a collection of plays and monologues. The topics covered in the book include housing and foreclosure, suicide, assault, mental health, the Black male experience, and more. The book intersects with critical race theory because the majori
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Social Fictions Series Series Editor Patricia Leavy USA
The Social Fictions series emerges out of the arts-based research movement. The series includes full-length fiction books that are informed by social research but written in a literary/artistic form (novels, plays, and short story collections). Believing there is much to learn through fiction, the series only includes works written entirely in the literary medium adapted. Each book includes an academic introduction that explains the research and teaching that informs the book as well as how the book can be used in college courses. The books are underscored with social science or other scholarly perspectives and intended to be relevant to the lives of college students—to tap into important issues in the unique ways that artistic or literary forms can. Please email queries to [email protected] International Editorial Advisory Board Carl Bagley, University of Durham, UK Anna Banks, University of Idaho, USA Carolyn Ellis, University of South Florida, USA Rita Irwin, University of British Columbia, Canada J. Gary Knowles, University of Toronto, Canada Laurel Richardson, The Ohio State University (Emeritus), USA
Blackeyed Plays and Monologues
By Mary E. Weems
SENSE PUBLISHERS ROTTERDAM / BOSTON / TAIPEI
A C.I.P. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN 978-94-6209-915-9 (paperback) ISBN 978-94-6209-916-6 (hardback) ISBN 978-94-6209-917-3 (e-book)
Published by: Sense Publishers, P.O. Box 21858, 3001 AW Rotterdam, The Netherlands https://www.sensepublishers.com/
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PRAISE FOR BLACKEYED
The notion of “play” – in its theoretical, theatrically, and teleological sense – linking design and purpose – penetrates this phenomenal body of work produced by Mary E. Weems. We all know that “play” is a counterconstruct, a term and practice that while engaged lightly realizes the labor of its opposite. Play, whether during grade school recesses as strategy and turn-taking in games, or on the stages of theatres and everyday performance arenas is a sensed frivolity with psychic consequences; play as poetic linguistic turn of phrase or manipulation of language as pleasure and performative intellect; play as in instigation, interrogation, and interaction of roles; play as a process of competition that tests character and commitment to culture; play as an engaged process of rehearsal and negotiation; and a play – as a performance that informs while it beguiles always illuminating the drama in everyday life. This is what Mary E. Weems has accomplished in this volume, a series of
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