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Radical Acts
Collected Political Plays
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Four inspiring, bold political plays that bring history alive as theater, from the Bancroft prize-winning historian, cultural critic, and public intellectual
Martin Duberman occupies a singularly important place in American culture.
—CATHARINE R. STIMPSON, DEAN AND UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR, NYU
—CATHARINE R. STIMPSON, DEAN AND UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR, NYU
Best known for his acclaimed biographies of Paul Robeson and Lincoln Kirstein and his provocative books about the gay rights movement, Martin Duberman has also had a long-standing involvement with the theater that began early in his career, when his drama criticism appeared in the Partisan Review and Harper’s, and continued with his own radical, adventurous, and deeply moving plays.
This volume includes four plays: In White America, about the black struggle for freedom and human rights, which became a smash hit and was named the 1963 Best Off-Broadway production of the year; Mother Earth, which brings to vivid life Emma Goldman, one of the twentieth century’s most famous revolutionaries; Posing Naked, the heartbreaking story of Smith College professor Newton Arvin, the most prominent (closeted) gay literary critic of his day; and Visions of Kerouac, which captures the beat era—from Kerouac’s ambition-filled early years, crisscrossing the country with pals like Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, to the later years of isolation and alcoholism. This paperback edition makes these four politically charged plays available to a new generation.
Martin Duberman is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at Lehman rnCollege and the Graduate School of the City University of New York and was the rnfounder and first director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the CUNY rnGraduate School. He has authored over twenty books, including James Russell rnLowell, finalist for the National Book Award; Black Mountain: An rnExploration in Community; Paul Robeson; Stonewall; the memoir rnCures: A Gay Man’s Odyssey; and The Worlds of Lincoln rnKirstein, one of two finalists for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in biography. In rn2008 Duberman received the American Historical Association’s lifetime rnachievement award for distinguished scholarship. He lives in New York City.
This volume includes four plays: In White America, about the black struggle for freedom and human rights, which became a smash hit and was named the 1963 Best Off-Broadway production of the year; Mother Earth, which brings to vivid life Emma Goldman, one of the twentieth century’s most famous revolutionaries; Posing Naked, the heartbreaking story of Smith College professor Newton Arvin, the most prominent (closeted) gay literary critic of his day; and Visions of Kerouac, which captures the beat era—from Kerouac’s ambition-filled early years, crisscrossing the country with pals like Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, to the later years of isolation and alcoholism. This paperback edition makes these four politically charged plays available to a new generation.
Martin Duberman is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at Lehman rnCollege and the Graduate School of the City University of New York and was the rnfounder and first director of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the CUNY rnGraduate School. He has authored over twenty books, including James Russell rnLowell, finalist for the National Book Award; Black Mountain: An rnExploration in Community; Paul Robeson; Stonewall; the memoir rnCures: A Gay Man’s Odyssey; and The Worlds of Lincoln rnKirstein, one of two finalists for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in biography. In rn2008 Duberman received the American Historical Association’s lifetime rnachievement award for distinguished scholarship. He lives in New York City.
Fall 2008
paperback
5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 320 pages
978-1-59558-407-6
paperback
5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 320 pages
978-1-59558-407-6
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