num_pages: 228
description: This collection of critical essays on plays by African American female playwrights from the post-reconstruction period to the present provides thematic analyses of plays by major and less widely known African American women playwrights The contributors examine the plays as vehicles of public discourse, and as explorations of issues of African American identity. Essays explore the themes of sexuality, agency, anger, and self-concept in the plays of African American Women.
language: English
title: Black Women Playwrights: Visions on the American Stage
titlecomplete: Black Women Playwrights: Visions on the American Stage (Studies in Modern Drama)
publisher: Routledge