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UNINA9910957516103321 |
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Titolo |
African American dramatists : an A to Z guide / / edited by Emmanuel S. Nelson |
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Westport, Conn. : , : Greenwood Press, , 2004 |
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London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), , 2024 |
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9798400607608 |
9786610926602 |
9781280926600 |
1280926600 |
9780313052897 |
0313052891 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (542 p.) |
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NelsonEmmanuel S <1954-> (Emmanuel Sampath) |
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African American dramatists |
African Americans in literature |
African Americans - Intellectual life |
American drama - African American authors |
Dramatists, American |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 515-516) and index. |
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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 Grimké (1880-1958); William Harrison Gunn (1934- |
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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 |
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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 |
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UNINA9910956546503321 |
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Autore |
Febvre Lucien <1878-1956., > |
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Titolo |
A geographical introduction to history / / Lucien Febvre ; translated by E.G. Mountford & J.H. Paxton |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1924 |
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1-136-19251-4 |
0-415-48753-6 |
1-315-00523-9 |
1-136-19248-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (651 p.) |
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Collana |
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The history of civilization |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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MountfordEleanor Gwen <1895-> |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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First published in 1924 by Routledge, Trench, Trubner. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Foreword; The Effect of Environment on Man and Man's Exploitation of the Earth; Table of Contents; Maps; Introductory: The Problem of Geographical Influences; (1) History and Traditional Position of the Problem; (2) Human Geography and its Critics; (3) The Plan and Objects of the Book: The Geographical Spirit; Part I: How the Problem should be Stated; Chapter I. Social Morphology or Human Geography; (1) The Objections of Social Morphology: Human Groups without Geographical Roots; (2) The Objections of Social Morphology: the Ambition of Geography |
(3) Ratzel's Mistake: Why he does not cover the whole of Human Geography(4) Human Geography the Heir of History; (5) Survivals of the Past: Old Problems and Old Prejudices; (6) A Modest Human Geography; Chapter II. The Questions of Principle and the Method of Research. Human Evolution, Historic Evolution; (1) The Objection of Principle: Is there a Science of Geography?; (2) Geography makes no claim to be a Science of Necessities; (3) The Question of Regional Monographs; (4) The Complete Solidarity of Political and Human Geography |
(5) The Legitimate Object of Research: The relation of environment to society in its historic evolutionPart II: Natural Limits and Human Society; Chapter I. The Problem of Boundaries, Climate, and Life; (1) The Traditional Idea of Climate. The Pioneers; (2) Climate and the Human |
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Physical Organism; (3) Climate, Human Character, and Actions; (4) Climatic Action takes place through the Medium of the Vegetable Kingdom; Chapter II. The Determination of Natural Areas and their Boundaries; (1) Complexity of the Idea of Climate; (2) The great Climatico-Botanical Areas in regard to Humanity |
(3) The Symmetry of the Terrestrial Organism and the Distribution of Human SocietiesChapter III. Natural Man an Individual or a Member of Society?; (1) The Old Conception: From the Human Pair to the Nation; (2) The Antiquity of National Groups; (3) Large Homogeneous Human Groups of Ancient Times corresponded with Homogeneous Geographical Areas; (4) The Savage and the Barbarian in their Natural State: Their Wants and Customs; Part III: Possibilities and Different Ways of Life; Chapter I. Its Bases: Mountains, Plains, and Plateaux; (1) The Vicissitudes of Possibility: Recurring Rhythms |
(2) The Definition of Possibility(3) The Supporting Bases of Mankind-Plains, Plateaux, Mountains; Chapter II. The Minor Natural Regions and their Bounds: Insular Units; (1) Insularity from the Biological Point of View; (2) Island Coasts: The Idea of Littoralism; (3) The Productive Coast; (4) Island Navigation and Island Isolation; (5) The Islands of the Desert: The Oases; (6) The Idea of Isolation and its Geographical Value; Chapter III. Typical Ways of Living: Hunting and Fishing; (1) A Geography of the Needs or of the Manner of Life? |
(2) The Classifications of the Economists: The Hypothesis of the Three States |
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Originally published between 1920-70,<EM>The History of Civilization</EM> was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize the most up to date findings and theories of historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and sociologists. This reprinted material is available as a set or in the following groupings:<BR> * <STRONG>Prehistory and Historical Ethnography</STRONG><BR> Set of 12: 0-415-15611-4: £800.00<BR> * <STR |
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