African American Women Playwrights - A Research Guide

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

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;

About the author

Christy Gavin

Summary

Documents the scholarship of 10 black American women playwrights, representing the Harlem Renaissance and the period between the 1950s and the 1970s. Chapters on playwrights including Marita Bonner, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Childress, and Ntozake Shange offer brief biographies, play lists, product

Product details

• Authors: Christy Gavin
• Assisted by: Christy Gavin (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.1999
• EAN: 9780815323846
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-2384-6
• No. of pages: 416
• Weight: 930 g
• Series: Critical Studies in Black Life and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Gender studies: women, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, Literary studies: plays and playwrights