Black Women Playwrights: Visions on the American StageCarol P. Marsh-Lockett Psychology Press, 1999 - 227 páginas 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. |
Contenido
Pauline Hopkinss Peculiar Sam | 13 |
Anger Racism and Feminism in Alice | 43 |
Mara Angelina Grimkés Other Play and the Problems | 69 |
The Quest for Voice | 87 |
The DesireAuthority Nexus in Contemporary African | 113 |
Alice Childresss | 131 |
Sexuality and Eroticism | 155 |
Conceptions of Sexuality | 173 |
Sexual Dimension | 193 |
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Contributors | 219 |
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Black Women Playwrights: Visions on the American Stage Carol P. Marsh-Lockett Vista previa limitada - 2015 |
Black Women Playwrights: Visions on the American Stage Carol P. Marsh-Lockett Vista previa limitada - 2015 |
Black Women Playwrights: Visions on the American Stage Carol P. Marsh-Lockett Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
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