Session Details

Friday, 30 December

698. Performing the Impossible III: Staging the Absent-Present

10:15–11:30 a.m., Park Tower Suite 8222, Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Drama

Presiding: Angela C. Pao, Indiana Univ., Bloomington

1. “The Absent-Present Woman: Suzan-Lori Parks’s Topdog/Underdog and Lorraine Hansberry’s Les Blancs,” Harry Justin Elam, Jr., Stanford Univ.

2. “The Pregnant Pause; or, Anne of Denmark as Queen of Da Nile in Ben Jonson’s Masque of Blackness,” Scott Maisano, Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston

3. “Performing a Traumatic Slave Past,” Lisa Gail Woolfork, Univ. of Virginia

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