
Sweet Tea
A Play
E. Patrick Johnson(Author)
Northwestern University Press
Will be published approx. on 30. August 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
72 pages
978-0-8101-4240-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book is the stage version of E. Patrick Johnson's Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South - An Oral History, a groundbreaking text for the fields of black studies, queer studies, and Southern oral history and ethnography. Between 2004 and 2006, Johnson edited a series of narratives from black gay men who were born and raised in the South and have continued to live there. While the scholarly text of Sweet Tea has enjoyed wide circulation, Johnson knew that the stories of these individuals weren't able to come fully alive on the page. He transformed the text into a theatrical performance, which originally toured the country as Pourin' Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales. The oral history has also been adapted into a documentary, Making Sweet Tea.
Based on several mounted tours and individual stagings, Sweet Tea: A Play provides an opportunity for readers, students, theater practitioners, and audiences from different backgrounds to engage with the lives of these incredible characters.
Based on several mounted tours and individual stagings, Sweet Tea: A Play provides an opportunity for readers, students, theater practitioners, and audiences from different backgrounds to engage with the lives of these incredible characters.
Reviews / Votes
Sweet Tea takes on some complicated subject matters - a father's recounting of coming out to his four-year-old son is particularly moving - but overall its tone feels more personal than provocative. When he is telling his story through his own eyes rather than the eyes of those he's interviewed, it's a pleasure to get to know Johnson himself . . ." - Missy Frederick, WashingtonianMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Evanston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Illustrations
7 black & white images in gallery
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 147 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
200 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8101-4240-4 (9780810142404)
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E-Book
08/2020
1st Edition
Northwestern University Press
€19.49
Available for download
Persons
E. Patrick Johnson is Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and a professor of African American studies at Northwestern University, where he is the founder and director of the Black Arts Initiative. Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South - An Oral History was published in 2008 and has won many awards, as have his books Black. Queer. Southern. Women. - An Oral History and Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity. He is also the author of Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women and the editor or coeditor of several volumes, including No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies, Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology (with Mae G. Henderson), and solo/black/woman: scripts, interviews, and essays (with RamOn H. Rivera-Servera, published by Northwestern University Press).
Content
Foreword by Jane M. Saks
Production History
Preface
Sweet Tea: A Play
Production History
Preface
Sweet Tea: A Play