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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811737903321

Titolo

African American dramatists : an A to Z guide / / edited by Emmanuel S. Nelson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn. : , : Greenwood Press, , 2004

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), , 2024

ISBN

979-84-00-60760-8

1-280-92660-0

9786610926602

0-313-05289-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (542 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

NelsonEmmanuel S <1954-> (Emmanuel Sampath)

Disciplina

812.009/896073/003

Soggetti

African American dramatists

African Americans in literature

African Americans - Intellectual life

American drama - African American authors

Dramatists, American

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 515-516) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Ira Aldridge (1807-1867); James Baldwin (1924-1987); Amiri Baraka(1934- ); Marita Bonner (1898-1971); Arna Bontemps (1902-1973); William Blackwell Branch (1927- ); William Wells Brown (1814-1884); Elizabeth Brown-Guillory (1954- ); Ed Bullins(1935- ); Ben Caldwell (1937- ); Vinnette Carroll (1922-2002); Pearl Cleage (1948- ); Kathleen Conwell Collins (1942-1988); J(oan) California Cooper (?- ); Kia Corthron(1962- ); Ossie Davis (1917- ); Thomas Covington Dent (1932-1998); Owen Dodson (1914-1983); Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935); Lonne Elder III (1931-1996)

Rudolph Fisher (1897-1934)J.e. Franklin (1937- ); Charles Gordone (1925-1995); Shirley Graham (1896-1977); Micki Grant (1941- ); Angelina Weld GrimkeĢ (1880-1958); William Harrison Gunn (1934-1989); Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965); Leslie Pinckney Hill (1880-1960); Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930); Langston Hughes (1902-1967); Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960); Georgia Douglas



Johnson (1880?-1966); Samuel L. Kelley (1948- ); Adrienne Kennedy (1931- ); May Miller (1899-1995); Ron Milner (1938-2004); Loften Mitchell (1919-2001); Barbara Molette (1940- ); Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-1987)

Robert O'Hara (1970- )OyamO (1943- ); Suzan-Lori Parks (1964- ); Louis Stamford Peterson (1922-1998); Aishah Rahman (1937- ); Willis Richardson (1889-1977); Sonia Sanchez (1934- ); Victor Sejour (1817-1874); Ntozake Shange(1948- ); Ted Shine (1931- ); Anna Deavere Smith (1950- ); Eulalie Spence (1894-1981); Wallace Thurman (1902-1934); Eugene (Jean) Pinchback Toomer (1894-1967); Joseph A. Walker (1935- ); Douglas Turner Ward (1930- ); Samm-Art Williams (1946- ); August Wilson (1945- ); Charlayne Woodard (1955- ); Richard Wright (1908-1960); Marvin X (1944- ); Selected Bibliography; Index

About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Despite their significant contributions to the American theater, African American dramatists have received less critical attention than novelists and poets. This reference offers thorough critical assessments of the lives and works of African American playwrights from the 19th century to the present. The book alphabetically arranges entries on more than 60 dramatists, including James Baldwin, Arna Bontemps, Ossie Davis, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a summary of the playwr