Their Place on the Stage Black Women Playwrights in America

Name: Their Place on the Stage Black Women Playwrights in America
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ISBN: 9780275935665

ISBN-10: 0275935663

ISBN-13: 9780275935665

Edition: N/A

Authors: Eliz Brown Guillory

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This important contribution to African American and women's studies analyzes the dramatic works of America's black women playwrights. The plays of such writers as Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, and Ntozake Shange are examined in light of the tradition from which they emerged. Brown-Guillory begins by tracing the development of African American theater with its roots in African theatrics, then moves on to discuss women playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance such as Angelina Weld Grimke, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, May Miller, Mary Burrill, Myrtle Smith Livingston, Ruth Gaines-Shelton, Eulalie Spence, and Marita Bonner. Though rarely anthologized and infrequently made…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 3/20/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Foreword



Theater Tradition and Women Playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance



Carving a Place for Themselves on the American Stage Tonal Form: Symbols as Shapers of ""Theater of Struggle"" Structural Form: African American Initiation and Survival Rituals Mirroring the Dark and Beautiful Warriors: Images of Blacks


The African Continuum: The Progeny in the New World Afterword



Bibliography


Index