African American Women Playwrights: A Research Guide (Critical Studies in Black Life and Culture) [Hardcover]

Christy Gavin (Author, Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0815323840 | ISBN-13: 978-0815323846 | Edition: 1

This Guide includes the primary and secondary works and summaries of plays of 15 prominent African American women playwrights including Lorraine Hansberry, Ntozake Shange, Adrienne Kennedy, Alice Childress, Zora Neale Hurston, Georgia Douglas Johnson. During the last 10 to 15 years, critical consideration of contemporary as well as earlier black women playwrights has blossomed. Plays by black women are increasingly anthologized and two recently published anthologies devote themselves solely to black women dramatists. In light of the growing interest in scholarship concerning African American women playwrights, researchers and librarians need a bibliographical source that brings together the profiles interviews, critical material and primary sources of black female playwrights. This guide will provide a bibliographical essay reviewing the scholarship of black women playwrights as well as for each playwright: a biography, summaries of each play detailed annotations of secondary material, and list of primary sources.

Editorial Reviews

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"This resource is highly recommended for academic libraries."
-American Reference Books Annual, 2000

Product Details

• Hardcover: 264 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (June 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0815323840
• ISBN-13: 978-0815323846
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,705,060 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)