How did Caribbean rituals helped form new currents in the performing and visual arts of the United States? This book answers this question through an examination of the Caribbean-inspired dance creations of dancer/choreographer Katherine Dunham and the experimental films of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren.
قائمة المحتويات
Preface
1. Introduction: Caribbean Performance: Dancing Transformation in Katherine Dunham’s and Maya Deren’s ‘Haitian Excursions’
2. Black Dance, Modern Dance, and the Caribbean: Locating the Work of Katherine Dunham and Maya Deren
3. Island Possessed: Dance Ethnography Performing the Caribbean
4. Maya Deren on Visualizing (Mediating) Vodou
Afterword: Caribbean Dis-Location
عن المؤلف
Lydia Platón Lázaro teaches at the University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras.
لغة الإنجليزية ● شكل PDF ● صفحات 197 ● ISBN 9781137471802 ● حجم الملف 0.9 MB ● الناشر Palgrave Macmillan US ● مدينة New York ● نشرت 2015 ● للتحميل 24 الشهور ● دقة EUR ● هوية شخصية 4542657 ● حماية النسخ DRM الاجتماعية