Abstract
, and Antoinette Nwandu's Pass Over--represent a new subgenre in African American theater that might be termed BLM (Black Lives Matter) Drama. Located at a crossroads between the past (especially the legacies of artists like Black Arts playwright LeRoi Jones [Amiri Baraka] and innovator Suzan-Lori Parks) and the present (in the wake of Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and many others), these works exemplify urgent political and aesthetic choices that foster activism. Among the techniques discussed in the close readings of these three works are their indictments of audience passivity, their calls to action by recording and remembrance, and their awareness of the multi-layered qualities of racial injustice.
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