Harvey Young
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harvey Young |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harvey |
| FAMILY NAME | Young |
| SIGNATURE | YOUNG H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9700-9102 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
LeAnn Fields and University of Michigan Press
In 1987, LeAnn Fields acquired Lynda Hart‘s Making a Spectacle: Feminist Essays on Contemporary Women’s Theatre. By the time Fields retired in 2024, she had built a list of more than 280 books in the field of theatre and performance studies at the University of Michigan Press. Hart’s Making a Spectacle is a foundational and still radical book of critical essays on gender, the body, and spectatorship, topics that continue to chart and reverberate …
The Once and Future Taps: A Conversation with Harvey Young
The Once and Future TAPS: A Conversation with Harvey Young Harvey Young (bio) and Carla Neuss (bio) This interview was conducted in June 2023 at Yale University through the support and generosity of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, UCLA, and ATHE it has been edited for clarity and length. Carla Neuss (CN): To start us off I wanted to see if you'd like to reflect on your own experience with Theatre Journal. I know you just had an article come o…
Whipping the Black Body in Delaware
This article centers public whippings in Delaware. Whereas there is an extensive literature on extra-legal corporal punishments (such as lynchings), comparatively less attention has been paid to public enactments of corporal punishments of African Americans that were authorized by law in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In focusing on the staging of whippings before assemblies of spectators, this article reveals how a theatre of punis…
Theater and Human Flourishing
Theatre after Empire
America in the Round: Capital, Race, and Nation at Washington, DC's Arena Stage by Donatella Galella
Reviewed by: America in the Round: Capital, Race, and Nation at Washington, DC’s Arena Stage by Donatella Galella Harvey Young AMERICA IN THE ROUND: CAPITAL, RACE, AND NATION AT WASHINGTON, DC’S ARENA STAGE. By Donatella Galella. Studies in Theatre History and Culture series. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2019; pp. 314. There are certain things that are sufficiently obvious and necessary that you wonder how the world managed to get by with…
Signs of Life
Still Thrills: The Drama of Chess
Although chess is a game that is played, it is also an event that is performed. An analysis of the Fischer-Spassky World Championship, the match between Garry Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue, and the European tour of the 19th-century American champion Paul Morphy reveals the qualities that make competitive chess a theatrical event that relies both on bodies and on imaginations
Theatre & Race
"The theatre has always been a place where conceptions of race and racism have been staged, shared and perpetuated. Harvey Young introduces key ideas about race, before tracing its relationship with theatre and performance--from Ancient Athens to the present day."--Publisher's website
Black Performance Studies in the New Millennium
Black Performance Studies in the New Millennium Harvey Young (bio) Darkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation in Depression-Era African American Performance. By Stephanie Leigh Batiste. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011; pp. 352. Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex: Race, Madness, Activism. By Tony Perucci. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012; pp. 232. The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Ne…
The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre
This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of African American theatre, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Along the way, it chronicles the evolution of African American theatre and its engagement with the wider community, including discussions of slave rebellions on the national stage, African Americans on Broadway, the Harlem Renaissance, African American women dramatists, and the 'New Negro' and 'Black Arts' movements.…
Adapting The Bluest Eye for the Stage
Adapting The Bluest Eye for the Stage Harvey Young (bio) and Jocelyn Prince (bio) Lydia Diamond's theatrical adaptation of Toni Morrison's novel, The Bluest Eye, opens with Pecola Breedlove, the story's eleven-year-old protagonist, standing at center stage. She holds a book and reads aloud from a "Dick and Jane"-style early childhood reader: "Here is the house. It is green and white. It has a red door. It is very pretty" (9). As she reads, the ot…
Remembering Genocide within Our Borders: Trail of Tears and US Museum Culture
In 1838, two years after the signing of the Treaty of New Echota, which legally exchanged the majority of Cherokee land holdings – approximately five million acres – within the state of Georgia for a significantly larger parcel in “Indian Territory” or Oklahoma, federal troops were sent to evict native residents from their homes and to initiate their involuntary movement westward. Federal intervention was necessitated by the fact that many Cherok…
Performance in the Borderlands
Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body
"Young's linkage between critical race theory, historical inquiry, and performance studies is a necessary intersection. Innovative, creative, and provocative." ---Davarian Baldwin, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies, Trinity College In 1901, George Ward, a lynching victim, was attacked, murdered, and dismembered by a mob of white men, women, and children. As his lifeless body burned in a fire, enterprising white youth cut…
Racism on the Victorian Stage: Representation of Slavery and the Black Character (review)
Reviewed by: Racism on the Victorian Stage: Representation of Slavery and the Black Character Harvey Young Racism on the Victorian Stage: Representation of Slavery and the Black Character. By Hazel Waters. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007; pp. viii + 243. $90.00 cloth. Hazel Waters’s Racism on the Victorian Stage belongs in every college library and on the bookshelves of theatre historians with an interest in the early Victorian era and…
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748627387'); Everything you need to know about Kant's Critique of Pure Reason in one volume. The Critique is one of the most written-about texts in the history of philosophy, however, it is also notoriously difficult to read. Burnham and Young unravel Kant's text passage-by-passage, making the reading and appreciation of the primary work achievable. Designed to be read alongside Kant, this approach will be h…
The Past As Present in the Drama of August Wilson (review)
Reviewed by: The Past As Present in the Drama of August Wilson Harvey Young The Past As Present in the Drama of August Wilson. By Harry J. Elam, Jr.Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004; pp. xix + 271. $49.50 cloth. In his latest book, a close reading of August Wilson's historical cycle presented within an intricately researched and intelligently written cultural studies model, Harry Elam has written the best study of August Wilson to dat…
The Bluest Eye (review)
A History of African American Theatre (review)
Reviewed by: A History of African American Theatre Harvey Young A History of African American Theatre. By Errol G. Hill and James V. Hatch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003; pp. xxiv + 608. $110.00 cloth. There is something monumental about A History of African American Theatre. Published within months of co-author Errol Hill's death, the book, in many ways, embodies Professor Hill's legacy. It challenges the erasure of African America…
The Bluest Eye (review)
Performance Review Erratum An editorial error was made in the March 2005 issue of Theatre Journal (Vol. 57.1) in the review written by D. J. Hopkins and Shelley Orr of Measure for Measure at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. The review on page 97 incorrectly cited Mark Rylance as the production's director. John Dove directed Measure for Measure. Mark Rylance serves as the Artistic Director of the Globe Theatre. The Performance Review editor regrets th…
The Black Body as Souvenir in American Lynching
This essay reads the collection of body parts, in the aftermath of the lynching spectacle, as souvenirs, fetish objects, and performance remains. Along the way, it spotlights the importance of narrative to the souvenir, challenges the notion that performance disappears through an emphasis on its remains, and asserts that embodied experiences of the past can be accessed in the present
The Violet Hour (review)
The opening of Steppenwolf's production of The Violet Hour in the days following the United States' declaration of victory in its war against Iraq could not have been better timed. As contemporary newspapers featured front-page pictures of President George W. Bush (the Ivy-League-educated millionaire and son of a World War II veteran), it was not difficult to see the similarities between Bush and Greenberg's protagonist, John P. Seavering, who ha…
White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies & Gentlemen of Colour (review)
Reviewed by: White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies & Gentlemen of Colour Harvey Young White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies & Gentlemen of Colour. By Marvin McAllister. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003; pp. x + 239. $45.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. The extraordinarily lengthy title of Marvin McAllister's new book draws its inspiration from a placard that…
Touching history: Suzan-Lori Parks, Robbie McCauley and the Black Body
This essay closely reads two contemporary performance projects by Suzan-Lori Parks (Venus) and Robbie McCauley (Sally's Rape). It examines how the authors (re)present black history on stage, manipulate language to reveal a particular, repeating experience of blackness, and center the body as the site where these accumulated repeating experiences visibly express themselves
The Black Body as Souvenir in American Lynching
This essay reads the collection of body parts, in the aftermath of the lynching spectacle, as souvenirs, fetish objects, and performance remains. Along the way, it spotlights the importance of narrative to the souvenir, challenges the notion that performance disappears through an emphasis on its remains, and asserts that embodied experiences of the past can be accessed in the present
Touching history: Suzan-Lori Parks, Robbie McCauley and the Black Body
This essay closely reads two contemporary performance projects by Suzan-Lori Parks (Venus) and Robbie McCauley (Sally's Rape). It examines how the authors (re)present black history on stage, manipulate language to reveal a particular, repeating experience of blackness, and center the body as the site where these accumulated repeating experiences visibly express themselves
Memorializing Memory: Marlon Riggs and Life Writing in Tongues Untied and Black Is Black Ain't
(2000). Memorializing Memory: Marlon Riggs and Life Writing in Tongues Untied and Black Is Black Ain't. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 15, Autobiographical Que(e)ries, pp. 248-260
Memorializing Memory: Marlon Riggs and Life Writing in Tongues Untied and Black Is Black Ain't
(2000). Memorializing Memory: Marlon Riggs and Life Writing in Tongues Untied and Black Is Black Ain't. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 15, Autobiographical Que(e)ries, pp. 248-260
Touching history: Suzan-Lori Parks, Robbie McCauley and the Black Body
This essay closely reads two contemporary performance projects by Suzan-Lori Parks (Venus) and Robbie McCauley (Sally's Rape). It examines how the authors (re)present black history on stage, manipulate language to reveal a particular, repeating experience of blackness, and center the body as the site where these accumulated repeating experiences visibly express themselves
A Beautiful Pageant: African American Theatre, Drama, and Performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1927 (review)
The second installment in his chronological study of African American theatre and performance history, David Krasner's A Beautiful Pageant explores ten significant and representative moments in the [End Page 735] African American theatre, dance, and performance culture between the years 1910 and 1927. These moments include the Jack Johnson-Jim Jeffries boxing match in 1910, the dance style of Aida Overton Walker and Ethel Waters, W.E.B. Dubois's …
The Violet Hour (review)
The opening of Steppenwolf's production of The Violet Hour in the days following the United States' declaration of victory in its war against Iraq could not have been better timed. As contemporary newspapers featured front-page pictures of President George W. Bush (the Ivy-League-educated millionaire and son of a World War II veteran), it was not difficult to see the similarities between Bush and Greenberg's protagonist, John P. Seavering, who ha…
White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies & Gentlemen of Colour (review)
Reviewed by: White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies & Gentlemen of Colour Harvey Young White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies & Gentlemen of Colour. By Marvin McAllister. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003; pp. x + 239. $45.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. The extraordinarily lengthy title of Marvin McAllister's new book draws its inspiration from a placard that…
The Bluest Eye (review)
A History of African American Theatre (review)
Reviewed by: A History of African American Theatre Harvey Young A History of African American Theatre. By Errol G. Hill and James V. Hatch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003; pp. xxiv + 608. $110.00 cloth. There is something monumental about A History of African American Theatre. Published within months of co-author Errol Hill's death, the book, in many ways, embodies Professor Hill's legacy. It challenges the erasure of African America…
The Bluest Eye (review)
Performance Review Erratum An editorial error was made in the March 2005 issue of Theatre Journal (Vol. 57.1) in the review written by D. J. Hopkins and Shelley Orr of Measure for Measure at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. The review on page 97 incorrectly cited Mark Rylance as the production's director. John Dove directed Measure for Measure. Mark Rylance serves as the Artistic Director of the Globe Theatre. The Performance Review editor regrets th…
The Black Body as Souvenir in American Lynching
This essay reads the collection of body parts, in the aftermath of the lynching spectacle, as souvenirs, fetish objects, and performance remains. Along the way, it spotlights the importance of narrative to the souvenir, challenges the notion that performance disappears through an emphasis on its remains, and asserts that embodied experiences of the past can be accessed in the present
The Past As Present in the Drama of August Wilson (review)
Reviewed by: The Past As Present in the Drama of August Wilson Harvey Young The Past As Present in the Drama of August Wilson. By Harry J. Elam, Jr.Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004; pp. xix + 271. $49.50 cloth. In his latest book, a close reading of August Wilson's historical cycle presented within an intricately researched and intelligently written cultural studies model, Harry Elam has written the best study of August Wilson to dat…
Racism on the Victorian Stage: Representation of Slavery and the Black Character (review)
Reviewed by: Racism on the Victorian Stage: Representation of Slavery and the Black Character Harvey Young Racism on the Victorian Stage: Representation of Slavery and the Black Character. By Hazel Waters. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007; pp. viii + 243. $90.00 cloth. Hazel Waters’s Racism on the Victorian Stage belongs in every college library and on the bookshelves of theatre historians with an interest in the early Victorian era and…
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748627387'); Everything you need to know about Kant's Critique of Pure Reason in one volume. The Critique is one of the most written-about texts in the history of philosophy, however, it is also notoriously difficult to read. Burnham and Young unravel Kant's text passage-by-passage, making the reading and appreciation of the primary work achievable. Designed to be read alongside Kant, this approach will be h…
Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body
"Young's linkage between critical race theory, historical inquiry, and performance studies is a necessary intersection. Innovative, creative, and provocative." ---Davarian Baldwin, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies, Trinity College In 1901, George Ward, a lynching victim, was attacked, murdered, and dismembered by a mob of white men, women, and children. As his lifeless body burned in a fire, enterprising white youth cut…
Remembering Genocide within Our Borders: Trail of Tears and US Museum Culture
In 1838, two years after the signing of the Treaty of New Echota, which legally exchanged the majority of Cherokee land holdings – approximately five million acres – within the state of Georgia for a significantly larger parcel in “Indian Territory” or Oklahoma, federal troops were sent to evict native residents from their homes and to initiate their involuntary movement westward. Federal intervention was necessitated by the fact that many Cherok…
Performance in the Borderlands
The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre
This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of African American theatre, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Along the way, it chronicles the evolution of African American theatre and its engagement with the wider community, including discussions of slave rebellions on the national stage, African Americans on Broadway, the Harlem Renaissance, African American women dramatists, and the 'New Negro' and 'Black Arts' movements.…
Adapting The Bluest Eye for the Stage
Adapting The Bluest Eye for the Stage Harvey Young (bio) and Jocelyn Prince (bio) Lydia Diamond's theatrical adaptation of Toni Morrison's novel, The Bluest Eye, opens with Pecola Breedlove, the story's eleven-year-old protagonist, standing at center stage. She holds a book and reads aloud from a "Dick and Jane"-style early childhood reader: "Here is the house. It is green and white. It has a red door. It is very pretty" (9). As she reads, the ot…
Theatre & Race
"The theatre has always been a place where conceptions of race and racism have been staged, shared and perpetuated. Harvey Young introduces key ideas about race, before tracing its relationship with theatre and performance--from Ancient Athens to the present day."--Publisher's website
Black Performance Studies in the New Millennium
Black Performance Studies in the New Millennium Harvey Young (bio) Darkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation in Depression-Era African American Performance. By Stephanie Leigh Batiste. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011; pp. 352. Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex: Race, Madness, Activism. By Tony Perucci. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012; pp. 232. The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the Ne…
Still Thrills: The Drama of Chess
Although chess is a game that is played, it is also an event that is performed. An analysis of the Fischer-Spassky World Championship, the match between Garry Kasparov and IBM's Deep Blue, and the European tour of the 19th-century American champion Paul Morphy reveals the qualities that make competitive chess a theatrical event that relies both on bodies and on imaginations
Signs of Life
Theatre after Empire
America in the Round: Capital, Race, and Nation at Washington, DC's Arena Stage by Donatella Galella
Reviewed by: America in the Round: Capital, Race, and Nation at Washington, DC’s Arena Stage by Donatella Galella Harvey Young AMERICA IN THE ROUND: CAPITAL, RACE, AND NATION AT WASHINGTON, DC’S ARENA STAGE. By Donatella Galella. Studies in Theatre History and Culture series. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2019; pp. 314. There are certain things that are sufficiently obvious and necessary that you wonder how the world managed to get by with…
Theater and Human Flourishing
The Once and Future Taps: A Conversation with Harvey Young
The Once and Future TAPS: A Conversation with Harvey Young Harvey Young (bio) and Carla Neuss (bio) This interview was conducted in June 2023 at Yale University through the support and generosity of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, UCLA, and ATHE it has been edited for clarity and length. Carla Neuss (CN): To start us off I wanted to see if you'd like to reflect on your own experience with Theatre Journal. I know you just had an article come o…
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