African American Women Playwrights Confront Violence A Critical Study of Nine Dramatists |
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| Author:
| Young, Patricia A. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7864-4455-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2012 |
| Publisher: | McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $64.90 |
Book Description:
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Explores the role of lynching dramas produced by African-American women dramatists. Writers covered include Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Angelina Weld Grimke, Mary Powell Burrill, and Myrtle Smith Livingston. The work also analyses the social protest plays of modern and contemporary dramatists Alice Childress, Sandra Seaton, Endesha Ida Mae Holland and Michon Boston.
Explores the role of lynching dramas produced by African-American women dramatists. Writers covered include Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Angelina Weld Grimke, Mary Powell Burrill, and Myrtle Smith Livingston. The work also analyses the social protest plays of modern and contemporary dramatists Alice Childress, Sandra Seaton, Endesha Ida Mae Holland and Michon Boston.