Research Catalog

Title

Reading contemporary African American drama : fragments of history, fragments of self / Trudier Harris, editor ; Jennifer Larson, assistant editor..

Publication

New York : Peter Lang, c2007.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Harris, Trudier

Description

xvii, 223 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

African-American literature and culture, 1528-3887 ; v. 15

Uniform Title

African-American literature and culture v. 15.

Subject

• Geschichte 1959-2002
• American drama > History and criticism
• History in literature
• Slavery in literature
• Self in literature
• Identity (Psychology) in literature
• African Americans > Race identity
• African Americans in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

"Education has spoiled many a good plow hand" : how Beneatha's knowledge functions in A raisin in the sun / Rachelle S. Gold -- Dutchman's signifyin(g) subway : how Amiri Baraka takes Ralph Ellison underground / Matthew Luter -- No blues for Mister Henry : locating Richard's revolution / Meredith M. Malburne -- African queens and messed-up chicks : representations of identity in Alice Childress's Wine in the wilderness / Joy E. Cranshaw -- Child's play : Ntozake Shange's audience of colored girls / Pamela Hamilton -- Flyin' "anyplace else" : (dis)engaging traumatic memory in three plays by Pearl Cleage / Benjamin Sammons -- "A world made in my image" : Romare Bearden's collagist technique in August Wilson's Joe Turner's come and gone / John M. Hannah -- Signifying Raisin : Hansberry's A raisin in the sun and Wilson's Fences / John M. Hannah -- Folding and unfolding history : identity fabrication in Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/underdog / Jennifer Larson -- "With deliberate calculation" : money, sex, and the black playwright in Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus / Jennifer Larson.

ISBN

• 9780820488875 (alk. paper)
• 0820488879 (alk. paper)
• 9780820488868 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0820488860 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006101456

OCLC

• 77004258
• SCSB-11214082

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library