Vanishing Acts: Civil Rights Reform and Dramatic Inversion in Douglas Turner Ward's Day of Absence

Authors

GerShun Avilez, University of Maryland, College Park

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Description

Dramatist Douglas Turner Ward's innovative play Day of Absence first premiered in November 1965 in New York City and has seen a recent national revival, having been staged by theatre companies in Berkeley, New York, Washington, D. C., Omaha, and Chicago, as well as the Maitisong Festival in Gaborone, Botswana. It stands as a creative response to the African American civil rights situation after the 1964 act. Ward explores questions of Black labor and mobility and, in doing so, creates opportunities to invert the dynamics that have historically characterized U. S. society.

Publication Date

9-24-2020

Relational Format

journal article

Disciplines

American Studies | Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies

Recommended Citation

Avilez, GerShun, "Vanishing Acts: Civil Rights Reform and Dramatic Inversion in Douglas Turner Ward's Day of Absence" (2020). Study the South. 6.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/studythesouth/6

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