Trudier Harris, editor ; Jennifer Larson, assistant editor.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xvii, 223 pages ;
Dimensions
23 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
African-American literature and culture,
Volume Designation
v. 15
ISSN of Series
1528-3887 ;
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
"Education has spoiled many a good plow hand" : how Beneatha's knowledge functions in A raisin in the sun / Rachelle S. Gold -- Dutchman's signifyin(g) subway : how Amiri Baraka takes Ralph Ellison underground / Matthew Luter -- No blues for Mister Henry : locating Richard's revolution / Meredith M. Malburne -- African queens and messed-up chicks : representations of identity in Alice Childress's Wine in the wilderness / Joy E. Cranshaw -- Child's play : Ntozake Shange's audience of colored girls / Pamela Hamilton -- Flyin' "anyplace else" : (dis)engaging traumatic memory in three plays by Pearl Cleage / Benjamin Sammons -- "A world made in my image" : Romare Bearden's collagist technique in August Wilson's Joe Turner's come and gone / John M. Hannah -- Signifying Raisin : Hansberry's A raisin in the sun and Wilson's Fences / John M. Hannah -- Folding and unfolding history : identity fabrication in Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/underdog / Jennifer Larson -- "With deliberate calculation" : money, sex, and the black playwright in Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus / Jennifer Larson.
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Title
Reading contemporary African American drama.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
African Americans in literature.
African Americans-- Race identity.
American drama-- African American authors-- History and criticism.