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Black theatre USA : plays by African Americans
"This revised and expanded Black Theatre U.S.A. broadens its collection to fifty-one outstanding plays, enhancing its status as the most authoritative anthology of African American drama with 22 new selections. Building on the well-respected first edition published in 1974, this edition feature...
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New York, N.Y. :
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Table of Contents:
- [v. 2]: The Recent Period, 1935-Today. Social Protest. Mulatto / Langston Hughes (1935) ; Native son / Richard Wright and Paul Green (1941)
- Family life. Take a giant step / Louis Peterson (1953) ; A raisin in the sun / Lorraine Hansberry (1959) ; Ceremonies in dark old men / Lonne Elder III (1965) ; The tumult and the shouting / Thomas Pawley (1969)
- Comedy and Satire. Limitations of life / Langston Hughes (1938) ; On Strivers Row / Abram Hill (1939) ; Day of absence / Douglas Turner Ward (1965)
- Church and God. The amen corner / James Baldwin (1954) ; The confession stone / Owen Dodson (1960)
- Modern Women Writing on Women. Funnyhouse of a Negro / Adrienne Kennedy (1962) ; Wine in the wilderness / Alice Childress (1969) ; For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is not enuf (excerpt) / Ntozake Shange (1976) ; Sally's rape / Robbie McCauley (1989)
- Black Theatre for Black People. Dutchman / Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (1964) ; Goin' a Buffalo / Ed Bullins (1966) ; Prayer meeting : or, The first militant preacher / Ben Caldwell (1967) ; Contribution / Ted Shine (1969) ; Blk love song #1 / Kalamu ya Salaam (1969)
- New Plays, New Ideas, New Forms. The colored museum / George C. Wolfe (1988) ; The mojo and the sayso / Aishah Rahman (1989) ; Fires in the mirror / Anna Deavere Smith (1992).