Frontiers Vol. 42, No. 1 (2021)
Special Issue: Black Performance
Contents
Editor’s Note
Kimberly M. Jew
Interview with Charly Evon Simpson
Trey McEuen
Interview with Harris Smith
Nadia Sine
Interview with Nikki Yeboah
Kalista Vordos
Interview with Martine Kei Green-Rogers
Stacey Haslam
“Blood at the Root”: Cultural Abjection and Thwarted Desire in the Lynching Plays and Poetry of Angelina Weld Grimké
K. Allison Hammer
Postindustrial Futurities in Contemporary Black Feminist Theater: Lynn Nottage’s Sweat, Dominique Morisseau’s Skeleton Crew, and Lisa Langford’s The Art of Longing
Julie Burrell
Sensing History’s Hold: Touch and Black Queer Representation after Moynihan
Darius Bost
Play (Loudly): The Racialized Erotics of Blacksound in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing
Gabriel Peoples
Posin’ a Threat: Countering the Colonial Project from Jay-Z’s “Moonlight” to the US Senate
Leticia Ridley
Flyin’ High in Flyin’ West: Representing Nineteenth-Century African American Women in Performance
Kristyl D. Tift
“Here We Are”: Ogoni Women’s Nonviolent Resistance
Domale Dube Keys
From Hawaiʻi to Okinawa: Confronting Militarization, Healing Trauma, Strengthening Solidarity
Kim Compoc, Joy Lehuanani Enomoto, and Kasha Hoʻokili Ho