Theatre Journal
Thematic and Special Issues

Theatre Journal, December 2005, Vol. 57, No. 4
Black Performance

Jean Graham Jones, Editor, City University of New York

For over five decades, Theatre Journal's broad array of scholarly articles and reviews have earned it an international reputation as one of the most authoritative and useful publications of theatre studies available today. This special issue, edited by Harry J. Elam, Jr., includes:

• a forum on Black Theatre and articles that examine tourism to Ghana's slave castle-dungeons
• the black body as souvenir in America's lynching
• the repertory of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
• reading the typography of the Invisible Man
• racialized subjectivity and digital performance art

Contributors include Suzan-Lori Parks, Anna Deavere Smith, Paul Carter Harrison, Robbie McCauley, David Krasner, Sandra L. Richards, Harvey Young, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Jennifer DeVere Brody, and Brandi Wilkins Catanese.

Past Thematic and Special Issues

Volume 54 (2002)

• Number 1, March 2002: Tragedy

Volume 53 (2001)

• Number 3, May 2001: Theatre and The City
• Number 1, March 2001: Theatre and Visual Culture

Volume 52 (2000)

• Number 4, December 2000: Theatre and Technology
• Number 1, March 2000: Latino Performance

Volume 51 (1999)

• Number 1, March 1999: Women, Nations, Households and History
• Number 3, October 1999: Theatre and Capital
• Number 4, December 1999: Theatre and Technology

Volume 50 (1998)

• Number 1, March 1998:Theatre, Diaspora and the Politics of Home
• Number 2, May 1998: Shakespeare and Theatrical Modernisms
• Number 3, October 1998: (II) Legitimate Theatres

Volume 49 (1997)

• Number 1, March 1997: Performing (in) South Africa
• Number 4, December 1997: Historicizing Bodies

Volume 48 (1996)

• Number 3, Fall 1996: Enacting America(n)s
• Number 4, December 1996: Eastern-European Transitions