Anna Deavere Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Deavere Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna Deavere |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH A D |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Francisco State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Global Game
Postmodernity has seen the space of children’s play increasingly locked into local and global economies. This essay argues that the new Margaret Mahy Family Playground built in Christchurch, New Zealand after a series of destructive earthquakes has not only become an expensive market-driven commodity, but has also been expected to mediate between a virtually empty inner city and its anticipated recovery. While the original design by children soug…
Oh, But for a Fool
September 01 2006 Oh, But for a Fool Anna Deavere Smith Anna Deavere Smith Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Anna Deavere Smith Online ISSN: 1531-4715 Print ISSN: 1054-2043 © 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2006 TDR/The Drama Review (2006) 50 (3 (191)): 192–193. https://doi.org/10.1162/dram.2006.50.3.192 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn …
"Black "Plays
Black “Plays” Anna Deavere Smith Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. [End Page 570] Some years ago I was invited to view a documentary film about slave plays. I was very excited to see what these could be. As it turned out, the film chronicled children's clapping games, ring games, and "plays" that were archived by a black woman, Bessie Jones, and a white folklorist, Bess Lomax Hawes. The games and "plays" are also recorded in a …
Twilight
Not so Special Vehicles
Twilight
Anna Deavere Smith
Anna Deavere Smith's Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights Brooklyn and Other Identities is a series of portraits of people enmeshed in the Crown Heights riots where Jews and blacks were so violently pitted against one another, in Brooklyn, August 1991. The riots were provoked when Gavin Cato, a black child, was hit and killed by a Lubavitch rebbe's motorcade. By the end of that day Yankel Rosenbaum, a young Jewish scholar from Australia, was murder…
Fires in the Mirror
O of the celebrated theater events of 1992, Fires in the Mirror emerged from Anna Deavere Smith's oral history project in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a neighborhood where Hasidic Jews, African Americans, Latinos, and others struggled to co-exist until the summer of 1991, when a car from the Hasidic Grand Rebbe's motorcade ran onto the sidewalk, killing seven-year-old Gavin Cato. The ensuing violence escalated with accusations that a Jewish ambulance…
Chlorophyll postmodernism and the mother Goddess/ a conversation
Fires in the Mirror
O of the celebrated theater events of 1992, Fires in the Mirror emerged from Anna Deavere Smith's oral history project in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a neighborhood where Hasidic Jews, African Americans, Latinos, and others struggled to co-exist until the summer of 1991, when a car from the Hasidic Grand Rebbe's motorcade ran onto the sidewalk, killing seven-year-old Gavin Cato. The ensuing violence escalated with accusations that a Jewish ambulance…
Chlorophyll postmodernism and the mother Goddess/ a conversation
Anna Deavere Smith
Anna Deavere Smith's Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights Brooklyn and Other Identities is a series of portraits of people enmeshed in the Crown Heights riots where Jews and blacks were so violently pitted against one another, in Brooklyn, August 1991. The riots were provoked when Gavin Cato, a black child, was hit and killed by a Lubavitch rebbe's motorcade. By the end of that day Yankel Rosenbaum, a young Jewish scholar from Australia, was murder…
Fires in the Mirror
O of the celebrated theater events of 1992, Fires in the Mirror emerged from Anna Deavere Smith's oral history project in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a neighborhood where Hasidic Jews, African Americans, Latinos, and others struggled to co-exist until the summer of 1991, when a car from the Hasidic Grand Rebbe's motorcade ran onto the sidewalk, killing seven-year-old Gavin Cato. The ensuing violence escalated with accusations that a Jewish ambulance…
Twilight
Not so Special Vehicles
Twilight
"Black "Plays
Black “Plays” Anna Deavere Smith Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. [End Page 570] Some years ago I was invited to view a documentary film about slave plays. I was very excited to see what these could be. As it turned out, the film chronicled children's clapping games, ring games, and "plays" that were archived by a black woman, Bessie Jones, and a white folklorist, Bess Lomax Hawes. The games and "plays" are also recorded in a …
Oh, But for a Fool
September 01 2006 Oh, But for a Fool Anna Deavere Smith Anna Deavere Smith Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Anna Deavere Smith Online ISSN: 1531-4715 Print ISSN: 1054-2043 © 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2006 TDR/The Drama Review (2006) 50 (3 (191)): 192–193. https://doi.org/10.1162/dram.2006.50.3.192 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn …
The Global Game
Postmodernity has seen the space of children’s play increasingly locked into local and global economies. This essay argues that the new Margaret Mahy Family Playground built in Christchurch, New Zealand after a series of destructive earthquakes has not only become an expensive market-driven commodity, but has also been expected to mediate between a virtually empty inner city and its anticipated recovery. While the original design by children soug…
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