African American women playwrights confront violence : a critical study of nine dramatists /

African American women playwrights confront violence : a critical study of nine dramatists /

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Author / Creator:	Young, Patricia A., 1952-
Imprint:	Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2012.
Description:	vii, 192 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	American drama -- African American authors -- History and criticism. American drama -- Women authors -- History and criticism. American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism. African American women -- Intellectual life. African Americans in literature. Lynching in literature. Race relations in literature. Social problems in literature. Violence in literature. African American women -- Intellectual life. African Americans in literature. American drama. American drama -- African American authors. American drama -- Women authors. Lynching in literature. Race relations in literature. Social problems in literature. Violence in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8966235

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ISBN:	9780786444557 (softcover : alk. paper) 078644455X (softcover : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This critical and gender-focused text scrutinizes the role of lynching dramas and social protest plays produced by African-American women"--Provided by publisher.

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Summary:	The pain of America's racial legacy has been richly addressed in the nation's literature, often by women who have gone largely unrecognized. This critical and gender-focused text scrutinizes 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. Of particular interest are the roles of black maternity and the pervasiveness of violence against black women in both the early and the later plays.
Physical Description:	vii, 192 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780786444557 078644455X