Black Female Playwrights: An Anthology of Plays Before 1950 (Blacks in the Diaspo) - Hardcover

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9780253343581: Black Female Playwrights: An Anthology of Plays Before 1950 (Blacks in the Diaspo)

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ISBN 10: 0253343585 ISBN 13: 9780253343581

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1989

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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.

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A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1990

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This anthology focuses on the creative life and works of seven black women playwrights writing in the first half of the 20th century. Perkins uses 19 little-known plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson, Mary P. Burrill, Zora Neale Hurston, Eulalie Spence, May Miller, Marita Bonner, and Shirley Graham to show the diverse styles and themes used by the pioneer black women playwrights in dramatizing the black experience of the time. An informative and well-researched historical essay on black women dramatists and biographical essays on each of the seven playwrights clarifies the interrelationship of these writers. Highly recommended.
- Jeris Cassel, Rutgers Univ. Lib., New Brunswick, N.J.
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