Abstracts for MLA 2022 Session 410V, "Bad Revivals"

This file contains abstracts for the papers presented by Minou Arjomand, Rebecca Kastleman, and Kelli Shermeyer in MLA 2022 special session 410V, "Bad Revivals: Dramas of Unruly Repetition.

Modernism on the world stage

In 1954, Maya Angelou performed in a production of George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess that toured through Italy. This United States-sponsored initiative brought African American performance to European stages in an effort to combat Soviet propaganda about American racism