| African American Women Playwrights: A Research Guide Contributor(s): Gavin, Christy (Author), Gavin, Christy (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0815323840 ISBN-13: 9780815323846 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 1999 Annotation: This Guide includes the primary and secondary works and summaries of plays of 15 prominent African American women playwrights including Lorraine Hansberry, Ntozake Shange, Adrienne Kennedy, Alice Childress, Zora Neale Hurston, Georgia Douglas Johnson. During the last 10 to 15 years, critical consideration of contemporary as well as earlier black women playwrights has blossomed. Plays by black women are increasingly anthologized and two recently published anthologies devote themselves solely to black women dramatists. In light of the growing interest in scholarship concerning African American women playwrights, researchers and librarians need a bibliographical source that brings together the profiles interviews, critical material and primary sources of black female playwrights. This guide will provide a bibliographical essay reviewing the scholarship of black women playwrights as well as for each playwright: a biography, summaries of each play detailed annotations of secondary material, and list of primary sources. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Drama - Literary Criticism | American - African American - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 812.540 |
| LCCN: 98-40865 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.76" W x 8.78" (0.93 lbs) 416 pages |
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| Publisher Description: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |