Black Comedy 9 Plays - A Critical Anthology with Interviews and Essays

Name: Black Comedy 9 Plays - A Critical Anthology with Interviews and Essays
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ISBN: 9781557832788

ISBN-10: 1557832781

ISBN-13: 9781557832788

Edition: 1998

Authors: Pamela Faith Jackson, Thomas Wallace Jones, Safiya Karimah, Hal Leonard Corp. Staff

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Reflecting the social history of the black experience in America over six decades, this anthology includes neglected masterpieces by some of the most important black artists, such as Langston Hughes, Douglas Turner Ward and George C. Wolfe.

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Publication date: 4/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 514
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.496



Preface


Introduction


On Strivers Row



Simply Heavenly



Day of Absence



Five on the Black Hand Side



Contribution



One Monkey Don't Stop No Show



The Colored Museum



Wizard of Hip



Big Momma n' 'Em



The Gift of Laughter



Farewell to Abram Hill



Zora Neale Hurston's Comic Vision



Re-creating Black Folklore: Telling Lies on Southern Porches and Urban Backyards



Hughes' Simply Heavenly and African-American Humor



The Electronic Nigger



Contribution: A Dose of Social Protest



Temporality, Idealism, and the Comic in Ossie Davis' Purlie Victorious or...From Greens to Chitlins



Perceptions Colored



Dear Granma Gladys



Consciously Political: An Interview with Charlie Russell


An Interview with Ted Shine


Director on Directing: An Interview with L. Kenneth Richardson


Notes on Contributors