Introduction to the book The Black Theatre Movement in the United States and in South Africa

Abstract

[ES] Esta Introducción presenta el libro The Black Theatre Movement in the United States and in South Africa, subrayando la enorme importancia de este movimiento de teatro en Estados Unidos y la repercusión que tuvo en la ampliación del canon literario y artístico occidental y en el teatro del continente africano, especialmente en Sudáfrica país con el que se podían observar grandes similitudes al comparara la situación de la comunidad negra en ambos países. [EN] The Introduction presents the book The Black Theatre Movement in the United States and in South Africa, emphasizing the enormous impact this theatre movement had in the United States and the repercussion it had in broadening the Western literary and artistic canon and in the theatre from the African continent, especially in South Africa where many similarities could be found when comparing the Black communities in both countries.