Research Catalog

Title

Afro-American writers after 1955 : dramatists and prose writers / edited by Thadious M. Davis and Trudier Harris.

Publication

• Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., [1985]
• ©1985

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Details

Additional Authors

• Davis, Thadious M., 1944-
• Harris, Trudier.

Description

xv, 390 pages : illustrations, portraits; 29 cm.

Summary

African-American dramatists and prose writers whose works grew out of or shaped the black arts movement, by creating prose and theatrical works relevant to black Americans. Works that reflect the increasing importance of autobiography and biography forexpressing conceptions of self and of the meaning of Afro-American history.

Series Statement

Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 38

Uniform Title

Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 38.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• African American authors > Biography > Dictionaries
• American literature > 20th century > Bio-bibliography > Dictionaries
• American literature > African American authors > Bio-bibliography > Dictionaries
• African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century > Dictionaries
• American literature > African American authors > Dictionaries
• Authors, American > 20th century > Biography > Dictionaries
• American literature > 20th century > Dictionaries
• American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• American literature > African American authors > Bio-bibliography
• American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
• American literature > 20th century > Bio-bibliography
• African American authors
• African Americans > Intellectual life
• American literature
• American literature > African American authors
• Authors, American
• Prozaschrijvers
• Toneelschrijvers
• Amerikaans
• Zwarten
• Écrivains noirs américains > 1945- ... > biographies > dictionnaires
• Littérature américaine > Auteurs noirs américains > Biographies > Dictionnaires
• Littérature américaine > 1945 > ... > dictionnaires
• Écrivains noirs américains > Biographies > Dictionnaires
• Écrivains américains > 20e siècle > Biographies > Dictionnaires
• Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Biobibliographie
• Littérature américaine > Auteurs noirs américains > Biobibliographie

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Biographies
• Bio-bibliography
• Reference works
• Dictionaries
• Reference works.
• Ouvrages de référence.

Note

• "A Bruccoli Clark book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

• Maya Angelou -- Toni Cade Bambara -- Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) -- Ed Bullins -- Ben Caldwell -- Alice Childress -- Ossie Davis -- Tom Dent -- Alexis Deveaux -- Lonne Elder III -- Charles H. Fuller, Jr. -- Bill Gunn -- Alex Haley -- Lorraine Hansberry -- Paul Charter Harrison -- Calvin C. Hernton -- June Jordan -- Adrienne Kennedy -- Woodie King, Jr. -- William Wellington Mackey -- Marvin X (Marvin E. Jackmon, Nazzam Al Fitnah Muhajir, El Muhajir) -- James Alan McPherson -- Arthenia J. Bates Millican -- Ron Milner -- Loften Mitchell -- Albert L. Murray -- Larry Neal -- Kalamu ya Salaam (Vallery Ferdinand III) -- Ntozake Shange -- Ted Shine -- Joseph A. Walker -- Douglas Turner Ward -- Richard Wesley -- Edgar B. White -- Samm-Art Williams.
• Appendix. The Black arts movement -- Community and commentators: Black theatre and its critics -- A look at the contemporary Black theatre movement -- A slender thread of hope: the Kennedy Center Black Theatre Project -- Black theaters and theater organizations in America, 1961-1982: a research list.

ISBN

• 0810317168
• 9780810317161

LCCN

85001673

OCLC

• ocm11755335
• 11755335
• SCSB-614334

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library