Author: Woodie King
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780452008069
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 671
Book Description
Black Drama Anthology
Author: Woodie King
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780452008069
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 671
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780452008069
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 671
Book Description
Black Female Playwrights
Author: Kathy A. Perkins
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253113660
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
"Fine reading and a superb resource." -- Ms. "Highly recommended." -- Library Journal "Perkins has chosen the plays well, and her issue-oriented introduction places the women and their works in a literary and historical context." -- Choice "As well as being centered on the black experience, the plays in Black Female Playwrights are centered on the female experience." -- Voice Literary Supplement "Perkins' anthology is valuable for a number of reasons... Perkins' book (which includes a bibliography of plays and pageants by black women before 1950 as well as a selected bibliography of critical works) is a major help in providing access to [the world of black drama]." -- Theatre Journal The need to acknowledge these works was the impetus behind this volume. Perkins has selected nineteen plays from seven writers who were among the major dramatizers of the black experience during this early period. As forerunners to the activist black theater of the 1950s and 1960s, these plays represent a critical stage in the development of black drama in the United States.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253113660
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
"Fine reading and a superb resource." -- Ms. "Highly recommended." -- Library Journal "Perkins has chosen the plays well, and her issue-oriented introduction places the women and their works in a literary and historical context." -- Choice "As well as being centered on the black experience, the plays in Black Female Playwrights are centered on the female experience." -- Voice Literary Supplement "Perkins' anthology is valuable for a number of reasons... Perkins' book (which includes a bibliography of plays and pageants by black women before 1950 as well as a selected bibliography of critical works) is a major help in providing access to [the world of black drama]." -- Theatre Journal The need to acknowledge these works was the impetus behind this volume. Perkins has selected nineteen plays from seven writers who were among the major dramatizers of the black experience during this early period. As forerunners to the activist black theater of the 1950s and 1960s, these plays represent a critical stage in the development of black drama in the United States.
The National Black Drama Anthology
Author: Woodie King
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557832191
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Presents plays by African American playwrights, including Robert Johnson's "Trick the Devil", Marsha Jackson's "Sisters", and Nubia Kai's "Harvest the Frost"
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557832191
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Presents plays by African American playwrights, including Robert Johnson's "Trick the Devil", Marsha Jackson's "Sisters", and Nubia Kai's "Harvest the Frost"
Black Thunder
Author: William B. Branch
Publisher: Signet Book
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
This anthology of nine contemporary plays (all produced between 1975 and 1990) actively confronts the racial realities of American culture and celebrates the African American experience with originality and meaning. Playwrights include George C. Wolfe, Leslie Lee, Steve Carter, Amiri Baraka, P.J. Gibson, William Branch, Alexander Simmons, Ed Bullins, and August Wilson.
Publisher: Signet Book
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
This anthology of nine contemporary plays (all produced between 1975 and 1990) actively confronts the racial realities of American culture and celebrates the African American experience with originality and meaning. Playwrights include George C. Wolfe, Leslie Lee, Steve Carter, Amiri Baraka, P.J. Gibson, William Branch, Alexander Simmons, Ed Bullins, and August Wilson.
The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers
Author: Mustapha Matura
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 140813098X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers provides an essential anthology of six of the key plays that have shaped the trajectory of British black theatre from the late-1970s to the present day. In doing so it charts the journey from specialist black theatre companies to the mainstream, including West End success, while providing a cultural and racial barometer for Britain during the last forty years. It opens with Mustapha Matura's 1979 play Welcome Home Jacko which in its depiction of a group of young unemployed West Indians was one of the first to explore issues of youth culture, identity and racial and cultural identification. Jackie Kay's Chiaroscuro examines debates about the politics of black, mixed race and lesbian identities in 1980s Britain, and from the 1990s Winsome Pinnock's Talking in Tongues engages with the politics of feminism to explore issues of black women's identity in Britian and Jamaica. From the first decade of the twenty-first century the three plays include Roy Williams' seminal pub-drama Sing Yer Hearts Out for the Lads, exploring racism and identity against the backdrop of the World Cup; Kwame Kwei-Armah's National Theatre play of 2004, Fix Up, about black cultural history and progress in modern Britain, and finally Bola Agbage's terrific 2007 debut, Gone Too Far!, which examines questions of identity and tensions between Africans and Caribbeans living in Britain. Edited by Lynnette Goddard, this important anthology provides an essential introduction to the last forty years of British black theatre.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 140813098X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers provides an essential anthology of six of the key plays that have shaped the trajectory of British black theatre from the late-1970s to the present day. In doing so it charts the journey from specialist black theatre companies to the mainstream, including West End success, while providing a cultural and racial barometer for Britain during the last forty years. It opens with Mustapha Matura's 1979 play Welcome Home Jacko which in its depiction of a group of young unemployed West Indians was one of the first to explore issues of youth culture, identity and racial and cultural identification. Jackie Kay's Chiaroscuro examines debates about the politics of black, mixed race and lesbian identities in 1980s Britain, and from the 1990s Winsome Pinnock's Talking in Tongues engages with the politics of feminism to explore issues of black women's identity in Britian and Jamaica. From the first decade of the twenty-first century the three plays include Roy Williams' seminal pub-drama Sing Yer Hearts Out for the Lads, exploring racism and identity against the backdrop of the World Cup; Kwame Kwei-Armah's National Theatre play of 2004, Fix Up, about black cultural history and progress in modern Britain, and finally Bola Agbage's terrific 2007 debut, Gone Too Far!, which examines questions of identity and tensions between Africans and Caribbeans living in Britain. Edited by Lynnette Goddard, this important anthology provides an essential introduction to the last forty years of British black theatre.
Crosswinds
Author: William B. Branch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
"Edited by award-winning U.S. playwright William Branch, this is a landmark collection of plays addressing various aspects of the global black experience by outstanding black playwrights from Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and North and South America. Among the plays are dramas by Nobel laureates Derek Walcott and Wole Soyinka, pioneering folklorist Efua Sutherland, and two-time Pulitzer prize winner August Wilson."--Amazon.com viewed Nov. 3, 2022.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
"Edited by award-winning U.S. playwright William Branch, this is a landmark collection of plays addressing various aspects of the global black experience by outstanding black playwrights from Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and North and South America. Among the plays are dramas by Nobel laureates Derek Walcott and Wole Soyinka, pioneering folklorist Efua Sutherland, and two-time Pulitzer prize winner August Wilson."--Amazon.com viewed Nov. 3, 2022.
Seven Black Plays
Author: Chuck Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Seven winners of the nation's most distinguished award for African American playwriting.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Seven winners of the nation's most distinguished award for African American playwriting.
Black Southern Voices
Author: John Oliver Killens
Publisher: Plume
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Anthology of fifty-six African-American Southern writers whose works address the living contradictions of the South.
Publisher: Plume
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Anthology of fifty-six African-American Southern writers whose works address the living contradictions of the South.
African-American Literature
Author: Demetrice A. Worley
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
A collection of eighty-five selections that exemplify the range and depth of the writing of Africian Americans. f.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
A collection of eighty-five selections that exemplify the range and depth of the writing of Africian Americans. f.
Black Fire
Author: Imamu Amiri Baraka
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description