Theater great Paul Carter Harrison died Dec. 27 at an Atlanta-area retirement home, his daughter, Fonteyn Harrison, confirmed to The New York Times.
According to the Times, Harrison’s books, essays and award-winning plays “provided a theoretical structure for the Black performing arts” that routinely incorporated elements of African ritual and myth, which he considered inseparable from Black culture.
In a 2002 interview with the newspaper, Harrison characterized his career as “a continuous preoccupation with trying to retrieve out of this particular experience we call the American experience some traces of our Africanness in the work that we do.”
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