Identities at the mirror. Reflections on the Afro-American conscience from The Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land di Bill T. Jones

Identities at the mirror. Reflections on the Afro-American conscience from The Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land di Bill T. Jones

This essay shows how themes belonging to the African-American culture were renovated within the frames of a post-modern aesthetics in Bill T. Jones’ work. By combining issues relating to the African-American cultural history to an analysis of Bill T. Jones’ The Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The P...

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Main Author: Rossella Mazzaglia
Format: Article
Language:Italian
Published: University of Bologna 2009-09-01
Series:Danza e Ricerca
Online Access:http://danzaericerca.unibo.it/article/view/1622
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title Identities at the mirror. Reflections on the Afro-American conscience from The Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land di Bill T. Jones
title_short Identities at the mirror. Reflections on the Afro-American conscience from The Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land di Bill T. Jones
title_full Identities at the mirror. Reflections on the Afro-American conscience from The Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land di Bill T. Jones
title_fullStr Identities at the mirror. Reflections on the Afro-American conscience from The Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land di Bill T. Jones
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description This essay shows how themes belonging to the African-American culture were renovated within the frames of a post-modern aesthetics in Bill T. Jones’ work. By combining issues relating to the African-American cultural history to an analysis of Bill T. Jones’ The Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land, the author depicts its capacity to reflect its own time while appropriating, in an original way, the processes through which identity and political subjectivity were historically built within the African-American community.
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