Winner of 2015 Yale Drama Series playwriting competitionelected by Nicholas Wright, former Associate Director of London Royal Courtarbara Seyda stunningly theatricalCelia, a Slave is a vivid tableau of interviews with the dead that interweaves oral histories with official archival records. Powerful, poetic, and stylistically daring, this poignant work of dramatic art gathers together twenty-three diverse characters to recall the events that led to the hanging of nineteen-year-old Celia, an African American slave convicted in a Missouri court of murdering her master, the prosperous landowner Robert Newsom, in 1855. Excavating actual trial transcripts and court records, Seyda bears witness to a dark and obscure chapter in American history, illuminating the brutal realities of female slave life in the preivil War South while exploring such issues as rape, morality, economics, and gender politics that continue to resonate today.
Celia, a Slave
- 作者： Seyda, Barbara
- 出版社： Yale Univ Pr
- 出版日期： 2016-08-16
- ISBN碼： 9780300197068
- 編號： 203c608518105
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