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Catering to White Audiences

Fairview at Woolly Mammoth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2021

Paul J. Edwards
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Abstract

Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview attempts to implicate white audience members in spectating Black life in order to make room for audiences of color to imagine a story built outside narratives of overcoming. Yet Fairview expects and operates under the assumption that there is a white audience to respond to the work, and leaves audience members of color exposed once more to the white gaze.

Type
Critical Acts
Information
TDR , Volume 65 , Issue 2 , June 2021 , pp. 173 - 178
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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