Black Women Playwrights: Visions on the American Stage

by Carol P. Marsh-Lockett (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138964778
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/05/2017
Series:	Studies in Modern Drama
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Carol P. Marsh-Lockett

Table of Contents

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;

Editorial Reviews

Contains 12 essays by American university professors of literature, English, African American studies, and women's studies examining the work of African American women playwrights. Essays mainly focus on how these writers address the external realities of African American life and issues of African American identity and selfhood in the plays they write. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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