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9780684823072

Black Theatre, USA: Plays by African Americans: The Recent Period, 1935-Today

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  • ISBN13:

    9780684823072

  • ISBN10:

    0684823071

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1996-03-01
  • Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER

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Summary

This collection features plays written between 1935 and 1996.

This revised and expanded Black Theatre USA broadens its collection to fifty-one outstanding plays, enhancing its status as the most authoritative anthology of African American drama with twenty-two new selections

Author Biography

Ted Shine is the author of Black Theatre Usa Revised And Expanded Edition, Vol. 2, a Simon & Schuster book.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi
Amiri Baraka
Acknowledgments xv
SOCIAL PROTEST
Mulatto
4(20)
Langston Hughes
Native Son
24(43)
Richard Wright
Paul Green
FAMILY LIFE
Take a Giant Step
67(37)
Louis Peterson
A Raisin in the Sun
104(43)
Lorraine Hansberry
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
147(34)
Lonne Elder III
The Tumult and the Shouting
181(42)
Thomas Pawley
COMEDY AND SATIRE
Limitations of Life
223(3)
Langston Hughes
On Strivers Row
226(38)
Abram Hill
Day of Absence
264(19)
Douglas Turner Ward
CHURCH AND GOD
The Amen Corner
283(33)
James Baldwin
The Confession Stone
316(17)
Owen Dodson
MODERN WOMEN WRITING ON WOMEN
Funnyhouse of a Negro
333(11)
Adrienne Kennedy
Wine in the Wilderness
344(19)
Alice Childress
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide....
363(5)
Ntozake Shange
Sally's Rape
368(13)
Robbie McCauley
BLACK THEATRE FOR BLACK PEOPLE
Dutchman
381(11)
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
Goin' a Buffalo
392(27)
Ed Bullins
Prayer Meeting: Or, The First Militant Preacher
419(4)
Ben Caldwell
Contribution
423(9)
Ted Shine
Blk Love Song #1
432(19)
Kalamu ya Salaam
NEW PLAYS, NEW IDEAS, NEW FORMS
The Colored Museum
451(22)
George C. Wolfe
The Mojo and the Sayso
473(18)
Aishah Rahman
Fires in the Mirror
491(10)
Anna Deavere Smith
Bibliographies 501(4)
About the Authors 505

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