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Informationen zum Autor Sonia Sanchez is a poet, playwright, and activist living in Philadelphia. Her many books of poetry include Shake Loose My Skin, Does Your House Have Lions?, Under a Soprano Sky, Homegirls and Handgrenades, We a BaddDDD People, and Homecoming. She is the recipient of numerous honors recognizing her writing and activism, among them a PEN Writers’ Award and an American Book Award, as well as the Community Service Award from the National Black Caucus of State Legislators and the Peace and Freedom Award from the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.Jacqueline Wood is Associate Professor of African American Literature and the Interim Director of the African American Studies Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Klappentext "These seven plays by Sonia Sanchez form an emotional and historic bridge from the loud revolutionary power of the 1960s and the twentieth century to the more insidious and subtle challenges of this first decade of the twenty-first. Their power lies in their ability to present super/real snapshots of their time and circumstance with the mystic clarity that mixing poetry and drama can create. From "The Bronx Is Next," where Brothers prepare to burn down Harlem tenements, to "2 X 2," where Beverly and Ramona Smith find one another, Sonia's persistent call to Blacks--and especially to women--is to find the strength to assemble our ghosts and demons, confront them, and lay them to rest. The plays are startling and open us to a Sonia Sanchez whose vision can see the world as stage, or, perhaps, stage as the world."--Charles Fuller Zusammenfassung This collection brings together for the first time the plays of Sonia Sanchez! a prolific! award-winning poet and one of the most prominent writers in the Black Arts movement. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I. Essays Poetry Run Loose: Breaking the Rules (2004) Ruminations/Reflections (1984) Preface to Uh,Uh; But How Do It Free US? (1974) Part II. Plays The Bronx is Next (1968) Sister Son/ji (1969) Dirty Hearts (1971) Malcolm/Man Don't Live Here No Mo (1972) Uh, Uh; But How Do It Free Us? (1974) I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't (1982) 2 x 2 (2009) Selected Bibliography...
