Sandra L Richards
Biographic Data
| ID | 5604391 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandra L Richards |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandra L |
| FAMILY NAME | Richards |
| SIGNATURE | RICHARDS S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Etudes romanes |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
August Wilson in Context
Black Women Playwrights in American Theatre
Black Women Playwrights in American Theatre Kathy A. Perkins (bio) and Sandra L. Richards (bio) Over the years, we have shared concerns about the health of black theatre. Although we have taught university-level courses on African American and/or African women playwrights, and Kathy has edited several collections of plays by these women, neither of us has systematically studied the field as a whole. Thus this forum assessing the progress of women…
Space, Water, Memory: Slavery and Beaufort, South Carolina
This article explores the tension between place, space, and memory as they relate to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and are enacted in the arena of tourism. Tourism seeks to produce an appealing, easily narrativized experience that distinguishes one locale from another, thereby attracting tourist dollars, but that project is destabilized when visitors choose to remember outside normative categories. This article scrutinizes three performances on …
Critical Theory and Performance
Who Is This Ancestor: Performing Memory in Ghana's Slave Castle-Dungeons (A Multimedia Performance Meditation)
What Is to Be Remembered: Tourism to Ghana's Slave Castle-Dungeons
This paper explores performances of identity enacted by black tourists and hosts in the "contact zone" of Ghana's castle-dungeons, now designated World Heritage sites because of the transatlantic slave trade that occurred there. Building upon ethnographic observation and personal reflection on trips taken between 1997 and 1999, journals and videos of other African American travelers, and scholarship on memory, tourism, and performance, I argue th…
The Raison d'architecture and Architectural Theory in Early Sixteenth-Century France
Cet article analyse le premier traité d’architecture écrit en français, La Raison d’architecture antique, extraicte de Vitruve (Paris, 1537), un opuscule sur la question des ordres classiques. Malgré son immense popularité au milieu du XVIe siècle, on lui a consacré peu d’études, sans doute en raison du fait qu’il s’agit d’une traduction de la première édition du Medidas del Romano de Diego de Sagredo, texte lui-même obscur. Cependant plusieurs m…
Cultural Travel to Ghana's Slave Castles: A Commentary
Yoruba Gods on the American Stage: August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Central to Joe Turner's Come and Gone are elements of memory and desire, both in terms of characters who are seeking to reorient themselves and in terms of August Wilson's self-described project of creating a body of plays that will help African (US) Americans more fully embrace the African side of their "double consciousness" (Du Bois 38). Set in 1911 during the Great Migration when hundreds of thousands of African Americans left the rural south…
The Rise of the English Actress
The Early Eighteenth Century
Towards the middle of the eighteenth century a change in public taste towards greater decorum helped to improve the social position of the English actress. The heavy tragedies of Otway, Lee and Rowe, and the excessively recast productions of Shakespeare dominated the first half of the century, making Susanna Maria Cibber and Hannah Pritchard the first in their rank until Sarah Siddons superseded them. The late eighteenth century brought a new spe…
The Seventeenth Century
When the first women stepped onto a public English stage in the early seventeenth century the Puritan William Prynne complained, 'they have now their female-players in Italy, and other foreign parts — and in Michaelmas 1629 they had French women-actors in a play personated at Blackfriars, to which there was a great resort'.1KeywordsSeventeenth CenturyBridges StreetFavourite CharacterBiographical DictionaryRestoration TheatreThese keywords were ad…
The Rise of the English Actress
Wole Soyinka: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources
Nigerian Independence Onstage: Responses from "Second Generation" Playwrights
Although Nigerian theatre in English dates back to the late 1860s, a skillfully crafted, non-imitative drama began to emerge as late as 1958 with the production of Wole Soyinka's The Swamp Dwellers and The Lion and the Jewel by the University Dramatic Society in Ibadan, Nigeria.' In the intervening twenty-eight years following Soyinka's initial productions, this drama has matured enough to produce a of capable, English-language playwrights. While…
Negative Forces and Positive Non-Entities: Images of Women in the Dramas of Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka (Le Roi Jones) is generally regarded as the leading black playwright of the decade 1964-1974. His dramas, often characterized by arresting imagery, humorous but painful irony, and liberating anger, went far in exposing the fundamental racism of American life. They sought through a variety of stylistic devices to posit new myths which would return to black people a sense of themselves as their own standard of legitimacy and beauty. To…
Critical Theory and Performance
What Is to Be Remembered: Tourism to Ghana's Slave Castle-Dungeons
This paper explores performances of identity enacted by black tourists and hosts in the "contact zone" of Ghana's castle-dungeons, now designated World Heritage sites because of the transatlantic slave trade that occurred there. Building upon ethnographic observation and personal reflection on trips taken between 1997 and 1999, journals and videos of other African American travelers, and scholarship on memory, tourism, and performance, I argue th…
Cultural Travel to Ghana's Slave Castles: A Commentary
The Rise of the English Actress
Yoruba Gods on the American Stage: August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Central to Joe Turner's Come and Gone are elements of memory and desire, both in terms of characters who are seeking to reorient themselves and in terms of August Wilson's self-described project of creating a body of plays that will help African (US) Americans more fully embrace the African side of their "double consciousness" (Du Bois 38). Set in 1911 during the Great Migration when hundreds of thousands of African Americans left the rural south…
Nigerian Independence Onstage: Responses from "Second Generation" Playwrights
Although Nigerian theatre in English dates back to the late 1860s, a skillfully crafted, non-imitative drama began to emerge as late as 1958 with the production of Wole Soyinka's The Swamp Dwellers and The Lion and the Jewel by the University Dramatic Society in Ibadan, Nigeria.' In the intervening twenty-eight years following Soyinka's initial productions, this drama has matured enough to produce a of capable, English-language playwrights. While…
Space, Water, Memory: Slavery and Beaufort, South Carolina
This article explores the tension between place, space, and memory as they relate to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and are enacted in the arena of tourism. Tourism seeks to produce an appealing, easily narrativized experience that distinguishes one locale from another, thereby attracting tourist dollars, but that project is destabilized when visitors choose to remember outside normative categories. This article scrutinizes three performances on …
Negative Forces and Positive Non-Entities: Images of Women in the Dramas of Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka (Le Roi Jones) is generally regarded as the leading black playwright of the decade 1964-1974. His dramas, often characterized by arresting imagery, humorous but painful irony, and liberating anger, went far in exposing the fundamental racism of American life. They sought through a variety of stylistic devices to posit new myths which would return to black people a sense of themselves as their own standard of legitimacy and beauty. To…
Nigerian Independence Onstage: Responses from "Second Generation" Playwrights
Although Nigerian theatre in English dates back to the late 1860s, a skillfully crafted, non-imitative drama began to emerge as late as 1958 with the production of Wole Soyinka's The Swamp Dwellers and The Lion and the Jewel by the University Dramatic Society in Ibadan, Nigeria.' In the intervening twenty-eight years following Soyinka's initial productions, this drama has matured enough to produce a of capable, English-language playwrights. While…
Wole Soyinka: A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources
The Early Eighteenth Century
Towards the middle of the eighteenth century a change in public taste towards greater decorum helped to improve the social position of the English actress. The heavy tragedies of Otway, Lee and Rowe, and the excessively recast productions of Shakespeare dominated the first half of the century, making Susanna Maria Cibber and Hannah Pritchard the first in their rank until Sarah Siddons superseded them. The late eighteenth century brought a new spe…
The Seventeenth Century
When the first women stepped onto a public English stage in the early seventeenth century the Puritan William Prynne complained, 'they have now their female-players in Italy, and other foreign parts — and in Michaelmas 1629 they had French women-actors in a play personated at Blackfriars, to which there was a great resort'.1KeywordsSeventeenth CenturyBridges StreetFavourite CharacterBiographical DictionaryRestoration TheatreThese keywords were ad…
The Rise of the English Actress
The Rise of the English Actress
Yoruba Gods on the American Stage: August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Central to Joe Turner's Come and Gone are elements of memory and desire, both in terms of characters who are seeking to reorient themselves and in terms of August Wilson's self-described project of creating a body of plays that will help African (US) Americans more fully embrace the African side of their "double consciousness" (Du Bois 38). Set in 1911 during the Great Migration when hundreds of thousands of African Americans left the rural south…
Cultural Travel to Ghana's Slave Castles: A Commentary
The Raison d'architecture and Architectural Theory in Early Sixteenth-Century France
Cet article analyse le premier traité d’architecture écrit en français, La Raison d’architecture antique, extraicte de Vitruve (Paris, 1537), un opuscule sur la question des ordres classiques. Malgré son immense popularité au milieu du XVIe siècle, on lui a consacré peu d’études, sans doute en raison du fait qu’il s’agit d’une traduction de la première édition du Medidas del Romano de Diego de Sagredo, texte lui-même obscur. Cependant plusieurs m…
What Is to Be Remembered: Tourism to Ghana's Slave Castle-Dungeons
This paper explores performances of identity enacted by black tourists and hosts in the "contact zone" of Ghana's castle-dungeons, now designated World Heritage sites because of the transatlantic slave trade that occurred there. Building upon ethnographic observation and personal reflection on trips taken between 1997 and 1999, journals and videos of other African American travelers, and scholarship on memory, tourism, and performance, I argue th…
Who Is This Ancestor: Performing Memory in Ghana's Slave Castle-Dungeons (A Multimedia Performance Meditation)
Critical Theory and Performance
Space, Water, Memory: Slavery and Beaufort, South Carolina
This article explores the tension between place, space, and memory as they relate to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and are enacted in the arena of tourism. Tourism seeks to produce an appealing, easily narrativized experience that distinguishes one locale from another, thereby attracting tourist dollars, but that project is destabilized when visitors choose to remember outside normative categories. This article scrutinizes three performances on …
Black Women Playwrights in American Theatre
Black Women Playwrights in American Theatre Kathy A. Perkins (bio) and Sandra L. Richards (bio) Over the years, we have shared concerns about the health of black theatre. Although we have taught university-level courses on African American and/or African women playwrights, and Kathy has edited several collections of plays by these women, neither of us has systematically studied the field as a whole. Thus this forum assessing the progress of women…
August Wilson in Context
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