Radical Acts: Collected Political Plays - Softcover

Duberman, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1595584072 ISBN 13: 9781595584076

Publisher: New Press, The, 2008

Synopsis

Four inspiring, bold political plays that bring history alive as theater, from the Bancroft Prize-winning historian, cultural critic, and public intellectual.
BR>"Martin Duberman occupies a singularly important place in American culture."—Catharine R. Stimpson, Dean and University Professor, NYU

Best known for his acclaimed biographies of Paul Robeson and Lincoln Kirstein and his provocative books about the gay rights movement, Martin Duberman has also had a long-standing involvement with the theater that began early in his career, when his drama criticism appeared in the Partisan Review and Harper's
This volume includes four plays: In White America, about the black struggle for freedom and human rights, which became a smash hit and was named the 1963 Best Off-Broadway production of the year; Mother Earth, which brings to vivid life Emma Goldman, one of the twentieth century's most famous revolutionaries; Posing Naked, the heartbreaking story of Smith College professor Newton Arvin, the most prominent (closeted) gay literary critic of his day; and Visions of Kerouac, which captures the beat era—from Kerouac's ambition-filled early years, crisscrossing the country with pals like Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, to the later years of isolation and alcoholism. This paperback edition makes these four politically charged plays available to a new generation.

About this title

About the Author:

Martin Duberman is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at Lehman College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York and was the founder and first director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the CUNY Graduate School. He has authored over twenty books, including James Russell Lowell, finalist for the National Book Award; Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community; Paul Robeson; Stonewall; the memoir Cures: A Gay Man's Odyssey; and, most recently, The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein. He lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Press, The
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1595584072
• ISBN 13: 9781595584076
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296