Identità allo specchio. Riflessioni sulla coscienza afro-americana a partire da The Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land di Bill T. Jones

Rossella Mazzaglia

doi:10.6092/issn.2036-1599/1622

Identities at the mirror. Reflections on the Afro-American conscience from The Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land di Bill T. Jones

Authors

Rossella Mazzaglia
Rossella Mazzaglia teaches at the Department of Music and Performance, University of Bologna. She has published several articles on contemporary dance. Among her recent publications are Trisha Brown (L’Epos, 2007) and the edition of the issue Danza/900, for the journal “Culture Teatrali” (n. 14., 2006).

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1599/1622

Abstract

This essay shows how themes belonging to the African-American culture were renovated within the frames of a post-modern aesthetics in Bill T. Jones’ work. By combining issues relating to the African-American cultural history to an analysis of Bill T. Jones’ The Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land, the author depicts its capacity to reflect its own time while appropriating, in an original way, the processes through which identity and political subjectivity were historically built within the African-American community.

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Mazzaglia, R. (2009). Identities at the mirror. Reflections on the Afro-American conscience from The Last Supper at Uncle Tom’s Cabin/The Promised Land di Bill T. Jones. Danza E Ricerca, 107–136. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1599/1622