Research Catalog

Title

African American women playwrights confront violence : a critical study of nine dramatists / Patricia A. Young.

Author

Young, Patricia A., 1952-

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2012.

Holdings

Details

Description

vii, 192 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This critical and gender-focused text scrutinizes the role of lynching dramas and social protest plays produced by African-American women"--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• African American women > Intellectual life
• African Americans in literature
• American drama > 20th century > History and criticism
• American drama > History and criticism
• Lynching in literature
• Race relations in literature
• Social problems in literature
• Violence in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Early African American women confront lynching -- Life stories -- The plays. Lynching dramas -- Miscegenation dramas -- Judicial system dramas -- Ida B. Wells dramas -- Patriotic dramas -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9780786444557 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 078644455X (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012021414