1st Edition

African American Women Playwrights A Research Guide

Edited By Christy Gavin Copyright 1999
264 Pages
by Routledge

416 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

This Guide includes the primary and secondary works and summaries of plays of 15 prominent African American women playwrights including Lorraine Hansberry, Ntozake Shange, Adrienne Kennedy, Alice Childress, Zora Neale Hurston, Georgia Douglas Johnson. During the last 10 to 15 years, critical consideration of contemporary as well as earlier black women playwrights has blossomed. Plays by black... Read more
Chapter 1 Marita Bonner; Chapter 2 Mary Burrill; Chapter 3 Alice Childress; Chapter 4 Angelina Weld Grimké; Chapter 5 Lorraine Hansberry; Chapter 6 Zora Neale Hurston; Chapter 7 Georgia Douglas Johnson; Chapter 8 Adrienne Kennedy; Chapter 9 May Miller; Chapter 10 Ntozake Shange;

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Christy Gavin

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