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"Color struck" under the gaze : ethnicity and the pathology of being in the plays of Johnson, Hurston, Childress, Hansberry, and Kennedy

Title
"Color struck" under the gaze : ethnicity and the pathology of being in the plays of Johnson, Hurston, Childress, Hansberry, and Kennedy / Martha Gilman Bower.
Author
Bower, Martha Gilman.
Publication
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, c2003.

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Description
xii, 158 p.; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, 0069-9624 ; no. 208
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-153) and index.
Contents
"Warring" identities in the life and plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson -- Voodoo, music, and humor : Zora Neale Hurston's antidotes for the "color struck" -- The psychological confusion and racial love/hate in the plays of Alice Childress -- "Her world divided in half" : the aborted search for self in the life and plays of Lorraine Hansberry -- Fragmentation as sanity deferred in four plays by Adrienne Kennedy.
Call Number
JFE 04-4509
ISBN
0313322287 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2003057983
OCLC
52601149
Author
Bower, Martha Gilman.
Title
"Color struck" under the gaze : ethnicity and the pathology of being in the plays of Johnson, Hurston, Childress, Hansberry, and Kennedy / Martha Gilman Bower.
Imprint
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, c2003.
Series
Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, 0069-9624 ; no. 208
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-153) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 04-4509
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