Judith L Stephens
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612759 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith L Stephens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith L |
| FAMILY NAME | Stephens |
| SIGNATURE | STEPHENS J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Politics and aesthetics, race and gender
This essay identifies Georgia Douglas Johnson's use of Spirituals and choral configurations as key strategies in a black feminist cultural performance that negotiates debates surrounding the development of black theatre, provides new perspectives of gender roles, and performs important ideological work on race and racial violence in the New Negro era. Drawing on contemporary black feminist theory and African American cultural criticism, this essa…
Race, Rape, and Lynching
In the late nineteenth century, the stereotype of the black male as sexual beast functioned for white supremacists as an externalized symbol of social chaos against which all whites would unite for the purpose of national renewal. The emergence of this stereotype in American culture and literature during and after Reconstruction was related to the growth of white-on-black violence, as white lynch mobs acted in defence of white womanhood, the whit…
Strange Fruit
And Yet They Paused" and "A Bill to Be Passed
My recent discovery Georgia Douglas Johnson's lost ends a scholarly quest of many years and confirms Johnson's status as the leading playwright of the genre. The typescripts, dating from the 1930s and found among the NAACP papers at the Library of Congress on June 11, 1999, make possible a more thorough study of the six one-acts comprising the body of work Johnson specifically referred to as her lynching or plays on lynching.(1) Since Johnson was…
Racial Violence and Representation
Plays representing history of lynching in United States are only beginning to be understood as a distinctly American theatrical genre, a type of drama that began to appear at least as early as 1905 and continues to evolve on contemporary stage. As first anthology to address how horrors of lynching have been represented in American theatre, Strange Fruit: Plays on Lynching by American Women, which Kathy A. Perkins and I edited in 1998, reveals gen…
Female-to-male transsexualism, heterosexual type
Anti-Lynch Plays by African American Women
Subverting the demon‐angel dichotomy
In order to explore the significance of new feminist strategies for female representation, this essay traces the persistence of a particular limiting pattern of female characterization, known as the demon‐angel dichotomy, through various forms of twentieth‐century American drama. The discussion examines how the dichotomy was constructed and adapted in dramatic texts representing different genres and historical periods. The plays range from turn‐o…
Gender Ideology and Dramatic Convention in Progressive Era Plays, 1890-1920
Women and theatre program
Why Marry
Female-to-male transsexualism, heterosexual type
Politics and aesthetics, race and gender
This essay identifies Georgia Douglas Johnson's use of Spirituals and choral configurations as key strategies in a black feminist cultural performance that negotiates debates surrounding the development of black theatre, provides new perspectives of gender roles, and performs important ideological work on race and racial violence in the New Negro era. Drawing on contemporary black feminist theory and African American cultural criticism, this essa…
And Yet They Paused" and "A Bill to Be Passed
My recent discovery Georgia Douglas Johnson's lost ends a scholarly quest of many years and confirms Johnson's status as the leading playwright of the genre. The typescripts, dating from the 1930s and found among the NAACP papers at the Library of Congress on June 11, 1999, make possible a more thorough study of the six one-acts comprising the body of work Johnson specifically referred to as her lynching or plays on lynching.(1) Since Johnson was…
Anti-Lynch Plays by African American Women
Why Marry
Subverting the demon‐angel dichotomy
In order to explore the significance of new feminist strategies for female representation, this essay traces the persistence of a particular limiting pattern of female characterization, known as the demon‐angel dichotomy, through various forms of twentieth‐century American drama. The discussion examines how the dichotomy was constructed and adapted in dramatic texts representing different genres and historical periods. The plays range from turn‐o…
Gender Ideology and Dramatic Convention in Progressive Era Plays, 1890-1920
Women and theatre program
Anti-Lynch Plays by African American Women
Female-to-male transsexualism, heterosexual type
And Yet They Paused" and "A Bill to Be Passed
My recent discovery Georgia Douglas Johnson's lost ends a scholarly quest of many years and confirms Johnson's status as the leading playwright of the genre. The typescripts, dating from the 1930s and found among the NAACP papers at the Library of Congress on June 11, 1999, make possible a more thorough study of the six one-acts comprising the body of work Johnson specifically referred to as her lynching or plays on lynching.(1) Since Johnson was…
Racial Violence and Representation
Plays representing history of lynching in United States are only beginning to be understood as a distinctly American theatrical genre, a type of drama that began to appear at least as early as 1905 and continues to evolve on contemporary stage. As first anthology to address how horrors of lynching have been represented in American theatre, Strange Fruit: Plays on Lynching by American Women, which Kathy A. Perkins and I edited in 1998, reveals gen…
Politics and aesthetics, race and gender
This essay identifies Georgia Douglas Johnson's use of Spirituals and choral configurations as key strategies in a black feminist cultural performance that negotiates debates surrounding the development of black theatre, provides new perspectives of gender roles, and performs important ideological work on race and racial violence in the New Negro era. Drawing on contemporary black feminist theory and African American cultural criticism, this essa…
Race, Rape, and Lynching
In the late nineteenth century, the stereotype of the black male as sexual beast functioned for white supremacists as an externalized symbol of social chaos against which all whites would unite for the purpose of national renewal. The emergence of this stereotype in American culture and literature during and after Reconstruction was related to the growth of white-on-black violence, as white lynch mobs acted in defence of white womanhood, the whit…
Strange Fruit
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