Title Black women playwrights : visions on the American stage / edited by Carol P. Marsh-Lockett

Published New York : Garland Pub., 1999

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 227 pages) Series Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 2051. Studies in modern drama ; v. 11 Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 2051. Garland reference library of the humanities. Studies in modern drama ; v. 11. Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Critical Introduction: Other Scribbling Women: African American Female Dramatists; Remaking the Minstrel: Pauline Hopkins's Peculiar Sam and the Post-Reconstruction Black Subject; Before the Strength, the Pain: Portraits of Elderly Black Women in Early Twentieth-Century Anti-Lynching Plays; Segregated Sisterhood: Anger, Racism, and Feminism in Alice Childress's Florence and Wedding Band; "Sicker than a rabid dog": African American Women Playwrights Look at War Mara, Angelina Grimké's Other Play and the Problems of Recovering TextsBlack Male Subjectivity Deferred?: The Quest for Voice and Authority in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun; The Desire/Authority Nexus in Contemporary African American Women's Drama; Celebrating the (Extra)Ordinary: Alice Childress's Representation of Black Selfhood; The Discourse of Intercourse: Sexuality and Eroticism in African American Women's Drama; The Nightmare of History: Conceptions of Sexuality in Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro "Filled with the Holy Ghost": Sexual Dimension and Dimensions of Sexuality in the Theater of Ntozake ShangeSelected Bibliography; Contributors; Index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject American drama -- African American authors -- History and criticism American drama -- Women authors -- History and criticism American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism American drama -- 19th century -- History and criticism African American women -- Intellectual life Women and literature -- United States African American women in literature. African Americans in literature. American drama -- History and criticism American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism American literature -- Women authors African American women in literature African American women -- Intellectual life African Americans in literature American drama American drama -- African American authors American drama -- Women authors Women and literature Frauendrama Schwarze Frau Aufsatzsammlung Drama United States USA Schwärze Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Marsh-Lockett, Carol P ISBN 1317944941 9781317944942

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