Race Relations, African American Drama, and Sociological Practices of Literature

• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: Hongeal Sohn
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제97호, 131~149쪽, 전체 19쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2010.12.30

영문 초록

This study focuses on race relations and their impacts on African American drama. For the purpose, the study foregrounds the effectiveness and productiveness of sociological practices of literature. It then applies a sociological practice to two African American plays published in the early 1950s, William Branch's A Medal for Willie (1951) and Louis Peterson's Take a Giant Step (1953). The “sociological” approach to the two plays reveals several interrelated facts. Due to the changing social mood toward racial integration in the 1950s, the two playwrights had to deal with the problem of the double audience carefully. Their selection of an audience from the black and white audiences affected in a significant way their representations of race relations in American society. This is shown in their employment of contrasting dramaturgical strategies, use of antithetical settings, different characterization, and, above all, varying degrees of straightforwardness and intensity in their representation of race relations.

목차

I. Race Relations and African American Drama

II. African American Drama and a Sociological Practice

III. Concluding Remarks

키워드

race relations African American drama the problem of double audience sociological practices