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General Editor's note | p. vii |
Notes on contributors | p. viii |
Acknowledgments | p. x |
Introduction: The struggles and triumphs of staging gender and race in contemporary African American playwrights | p. 1 |
"Something's going on down here that concerns me": Johnson, Hurston, Bonner, and Hansberry | p. 9 |
Dialectical dialogues: Performing blackness in the drama of Alice Childress | p. 28 |
"Shaking loose": Sonia Sanchez's militant drama | p. 47 |
American history/African nightmare: Adrienne Kennedy and civil rights | p. 62 |
"Boogie woogie landscapes": The dramatic/poetic collage of Ntozake Shange | p. 83 |
The feminist/womanist vision of Pearl Cleage | p. 99 |
"We must keep on writing": The plays of Aishah Rahman | p. 115 |
Glenda Dickerson's Nu Shu: Combining feminist discourse/pedagogy/theatre | p. 132 |
"Everybody's talking": Anna Deavere Smith's documentary theatre | p. 150 |
Digging the Fo'-fathers: Suzan-Lori Parks's histories | p. 167 |
An intimate look at the plays of Lynn Nottage | p. 185 |
An interview with Lynn Nottage | p. 194 |
Index | p. 202 |
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