Fire This Time African-American Plays for the 21st Century

Name: Fire This Time African-American Plays for the 21st Century
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ISBN: 9781559362054

ISBN-10: 1559362057

ISBN-13: 9781559362054

Edition: 2002

Authors: Robert Alexander, Harry Elam

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This major new anthology collects new work by important artists which explore the context of African-American drama in 21 st century America. The plays included are: In the Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks An examination of a homeless black women and her children based on The Scarlet Letter. Civil Sex by Brian Freeman A look at the intersections of civil rights on the life of activist Bayard Rustin. The Dark Kalamazoo by Oni Faidi Lampley A tale of isolation and rediscovery as a young black co-ed comes of age during a journey to Africa. Jitney by August Wilson The lives of Jitney cab drivers at a 1977 Pittsburgh cab station. Insurrection: Holding History by Robert O'Hara The lives of a…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 540
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.05" long x 1.55" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English

Robert Alexander is the author of the bestselling novels "Rasputinas Daughter" and "The Kitchen Boy," He has spent thirty years traveling in Russia, where he has worked for the U.S. government and currently is a partner in a St. Petersburg company operating a number of businesses.



Getting the spirit : an introduction



American pop and why plays still matter : an introduction



Staring into the shattered mirror : identity


In the blood



Civil sex



The dark Kalamazoo



Looking through the mirror backwards : the presence of the past


King Hedley II



Insurrection : holding history



Crumbs from the table of joy



New reflections in the mirror : the birth of a hip-hop nation


A preface to the alien garden



Rhyme deferred



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