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

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.