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A More Aggressive Plantation Play: Henrietta Vinton Davis and John Edward Bruce Collaborate on Our Old Kentucky Home
Ist Teil von
Theatre history studies, 2012, Vol.32 (1), p.120-140
Ort / Verlag
Pleasant Hill: The University of Alabama Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2012
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Literature Online (LION eBooks)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Without the benefit of belonging to a larger movement- and without the benefit of white-dominated organizations like the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People- woman writers of the preceding generation needed to find alternate paths in order to bring their voices to the public.2 A black woman playwright faced two particular obstacles en route to the stage: her gender and her race. Henrietta Vinton Davis Between 1883, when Frederick Douglass first introduced her to Washington, D.C., as a public elocutionist, and 1919, when she began a long association with the radical black leader Marcus Garvey and his Universal Negro Improvement Association, Henrietta Vinton Davis was considered the foremost dramatic actress of her race.5 Davis eschewed the popular minstrel-show stereotypes of her time, never "blacking up" in performance, and focused her energy instead on recitations from and performances of the plays of Shakespeare as well as numerous popular literary melodramas of the late nineteenth century.