1st Edition
Black Women Playwrights Visions on the American Stage
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
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This collection of critical essays on plays by African American female playwrights from the post-reconstruction period to the present provides thematic analyses of plays by major and less widely known African American women playwrights The contributors examine the plays as vehicles of public discourse, and as explorations of issues of African American identity. Essays explore the themes of sexuality, agency, anger, and self-concept in the plays of African American Women.
Chapter 1 Critical Introduction, Carol P. Marsh-Lockett; Chapter 2 Remaking the Minstrel, Martha Patterson; Chapter 3 Before the Strength, the Pain, Trudier Harris; Chapter 4 Segregated Sisterhood, LaVinia Delois Jennings; Chapter 5 “Sicker than a rabid dog”, Marilyn Elkins; Chapter 6 Mara, Angelina Grimké’s Other Play and the Problems of Recovering Texts, Christine R. Gray; Chapter 7 Black Male Subjectivity Deferred?, Keith Clark; Chapter 8 The Desire/Authority Nexus in Contemporary African American Women’s Drama, Lovalerie King; Chapter 9 Celebrating the (Extra)Ordinary, E. Barnsley Brown; Chapter 10 The Discourse of Intercourse, Janice Lee Liddell; Chapter 11 The Nightmare of History, Carla J. McDonough; Chapter 12 “Filled with the Holy Ghost”, Neal A. Lester;
Biography
Carol P. Marsh-Lockett
